Supercomputing 2020—New MPI heights, joining the Graph500, and 1 TB/s filesystems
A year ago during SC19, Azure unveiled the HBv2 clusters of virtual machines (VM) for high-performance computing (HPC). At the time, we characterized this uniquely powerful and scalable VM as “rivaling the most advanced supercomputers on the planet.” A bold claim for a cloud provider, to be sure. Since then we’ve endeavored to deliver on…