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HPC Cloud Updates WE 14 Sep 2025

HPC Cloud Updates WE 14 Sep 2025

AWS

Its been quiet for a while on the HPC front over at AWS… I wonder if they’re cooking up something? I guess its not that much longer to go till SC and reinvent so we will just have to wait and see. Nothing but a new regional instances this week.

New Regional Instances: i8g in Ohio, c6in in Thailand, r8g in Osaka and Central Canada

Azure

New  AMD 5th generation (Turin) EPYC based VMs from Azure now available in preview

Announcing preview of new Azure Dasv7, Easv7, Fasv7-series VMs based on AMD EPYC™ ‘Turin’ processor | Microsoft Community Hub
Today, Microsoft is announcing preview of the new Azure AMD-based Virtual Machines (VMs), powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC™ (Turin) processors. The preview…
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Dasv7 size series - Azure Virtual Machines
Information on and specifications of the Dasv7-series sizes
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Need to scale a bit more vertically? 192 vCPU instances in Dsv6 flavour are now available.

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Not really HPC but its fun to see what AI has adopted from HPC and what we can learn so taken in that vein its still kinda interesting

A Quick Guide to Benchmarking AI models on Azure: Llama 405B and 70B with MLPerf Inference v5.1
Highlights from MLPerf Inference v5.1 benchmark results include: Azure had the highest Llama 2 70B Offline submission with 52,000 tokens/s on a single ND…
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Google Cloud

I can’t see an official announcement for this, so might be jumping the gun here a little, but I see that the new H4D VM type is available in public preview now. We’ve been trying to get hold of it for a while in private preview with no luck so will see if we can actually get hold of one now!

Preview announcement was back in April!

New H4D VMs optimized for HPC | Google Cloud Blog
H4D VMs designed for tightly coupled HPC workloads with significant performance gains resulting in faster time to solutions.
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