Availability of H-series VMs in Microsoft Azure

[Steven]

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We are excited to announce availability of the new H-series virtual machines in Azure.   With the availability of these new VM sizes we continue our mission to deliver great performance for HPC applications in Azure.  H-series VM sizes is an excellent fit for any compute-intensive workload.  They are designed to deliver cutting edge performance for complex engineering and scientific workloads like computational fluid dynamics, crash simulations, seismic exploration, and weather forecasting simulations. 

The new H-series sizes are initially available in the South Central US Azure region and will be rolled out across other regions in the near future. 

The H-series VMs will be available in six different sizes, all based on Intel E5-2667 V3 3.2 GHz (with turbo up to 3.5 GHz) processor technology, utilizing DDR4 memory and SSD-based local storage.  The new H-series VMs furthermore features a dedicated RDMA backend network enabled by FDR InfiniBand network, capable of delivering ultra-low latency.  RDMA networking is dedicated for MPI (Message Passing Interface) traffic when running tightly coupled applications.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/availability-of-h-series-vms-in-microsoft-azure/