Voltus and Azure—no power integrity challenge too big to solve

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Giancarlo DiPasquale, Microsoft Director, Semiconductor & EDA; Rajat Chaudhry, Product Management Director, Cadence; and Adrian Lao, Senior Software Architect, Cadence. With the advent of AI and hyperscale designs on advanced nodes, it is common to see designs in over 50 billion transistor categories with tens to 100 billion plus nodes…

Do more with less using new Azure HX and HBv4 virtual machines for HPC

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Jyothi Venkatesh, Senior Product Manager, Azure HPC and Fanny Ou, Technical Program Manager, Azure HPC. The next generation of purpose-built Azure HPC virtual machines Today, we are excited to announce two new virtual machines (VMs) that deliver more performance, value-adding innovation, and cost-effectiveness to every Azure HPC customer. The all-new…

New Project Flash Update: Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring

By Dustin Ward

“Earlier this year, we introduced Project Flash in the Advancing Reliability blog series, to reaffirm our commitment to empowering Azure customers in monitoring virtual machine (VM) availability in a robust and comprehensive manner. Today, we’re excited to share the progress we’ve made since then in developing holistic monitoring offerings to meet customers’ distinct needs. I’ve…

Azure comes to Dallas for Supercomputing

By Dustin Ward

Supercomputing (SC), held annually, is arguably one of the biggest annual events in high-performance computing (HPC). It’s a great chance for the community to connect and learn from one another, and for Microsoft, the goal remains the same. After a couple years of virtual-only events, we’re thrilled to be joining you in person in Dallas…

Announcing more Azure VMware Solution enhancements

By Dustin Ward

I’m writing to you today from VMware Explore in Barcelona, where my team and I are presenting to and meeting with customers and partners in person! When we launched Azure VMware Solution two years ago amid a pandemic, IT agility became a top priority as organizations scrambled to enable remote work and ensure business resilience via cloud…