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Microsoft and Cray are enabling Azure customers to run certain workloads on Cray supercomputing hardware that’s installed in Microsoft datacenters.
Credit: Cray Inc.
The pair announced on October 23 that customers in select Microsoft datacenters will have the option to use Cray XC and Cray CS supercomputers attached to Cray ClusterStor storage systems. The systems will be connected directly to Azure and will integrate with Azure virtual machines, Azure Data Lake storage, as well as with Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning services.