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Bringing AI and High-Performance Computing to Enterprise

Today’s global challenges aren’t easy to solve. Issues related to our environment, economy, energy, and public health system require modern, transformative solutions. Microsoft Azure address these challenges with key high-performance computing (HPC) enablement and orchestration components integrated into a global-scale cloud platform.

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NVIDIA CUDA-X AI Libraries Speed Up Machine Learning in the Cloud by 20X

NVIDIA CUDA-X AI Libraries Speed Up Machine Learning in the Cloud by 20X

With just a few clicks, businesses of all sizes can accelerate their data science, turning enormous amounts of data into their competitive advantage faster than ever before.

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NVIDIA and Microsoft Create Edge-to-Cloud Real-Time Streaming Video Analytics Solution

NVIDIA and Microsoft Create Edge-to-Cloud Real-Time Streaming Video Analytics Solution

NVIDIA and Microsoft are partner to enable real-time streaming and video analytics that extract powerful insights from thousands of cameras distributed over wide areas.

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NVIDIA CUDA-X AI Libraries Speed Up Machine Learning in the Cloud by 20X

How to Launch NVIDIA Quadro Workstation on Azure

Watch this easy to follow guide that takes you from creating your Microsoft Azure account to powering up NVIDIA Quadro Workstation to access the most demanding design and engineering applications from the cloud

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Applications for Azure N-Series Virtual Machines

NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 SXM2-NDv2

NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 SXM2-NDv2

AI, Machine Learning, HPC

Tesla P40-NDv1

Tesla P40-NDv1

AI, Machine Learning, HPC

Tesla V100-NCv3

Tesla V100-NCv3

HPC

Tesla P100-NCv2

Tesla P100-NCv2

Entry-Level HPC

Tesla K80-NCv1

Tesla K80-NCv1

Entry-Level HPC

Tesla M60-NVv2

Tesla M60-NVv2

Graphics Visualization

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Microsoft Advancing AI-Powered Speech Using GPU Inference

Microsoft Advancing AI-Powered Speech Using GPU Inference

Microsoft demonstrates how their voice search tools leverage NVIDIA inference on Azure to provide more accurate and human-sounding results to users 5 times faster. 

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Microsoft Advancing AI-Powered Speech Using GPU Inference

AI Helps Bing Search for Images Within Images

Search just got smarter, thanks to AI and NVIDIA GPUs on Azure. Microsoft’s Bing now lets you search for images within images. You can even buy items you find there.

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We’re working hard to empower every organization with AI so that they can make smarter products and solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. By working closely with NVIDIA and harnessing the power of GPU-accelerated systems, we’ve made Cognitive Toolkit and Microsoft Azure the fastest, most versatile AI platform. AI is now within reach of any business.

- Harry Shum, Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group

Every industry has awoken to the potential of AI. We've worked with Microsoft to create a lightning-fast AI platform that is available to Microsoft Azure cloud users. With Microsoft's global reach, every company around the world can now tap the power of AI to transform their business.

- Jensen Huang, CEO and Founder of NVIDIA

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NGC

Get simple access to a broad range of performance-engineered containers for AI, HPC, and HPC visualization to run on Azure N-series machines from the NGC container registry. NGC containers include all necessary dependencies, such as NVIDIA CUDA® runtime, NVIDIA libraries, and an operating system, and they’re tuned across the stack for optimal performance. To run NGC containers on Azure and take full advantage of NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA tested and validated containers are available on Azure Marketplace.

Azure Machine Learning Service

AZURE MACHINE LEARNING SERVICE

Use Azure Machine Learning service to accelerate the machine learning lifecycle with powerful NVIDIA GPUs. Use automated machine learning to identify suitable algorithms and tune hyperparameters faster. Improve productivity and reduce costs with autoscaling GPU clusters and built-in machine learning operations. Seamlessly deploy to the cloud and the edge with one click. Access all these capabilities from any Python environment using open-source frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit -learn. Azure Machine Learning service also integrates with RAPIDS to unlock even more performance gains.

GPU-Accelerated Virtualized Graphics

With NVIDIA Quadro® Virtual Workstations, creative and technical professionals can maximize their productivity from anywhere by accessing the most demanding professional design and engineering applications from the cloud. Virtual workstations powered by NVIDIA GPUs are available directly from Microsoft Azure and from the Azure Marketplace. For large-scale cloud deployments and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments, knowledge workers and other professionals can leverage GPU-accelerated cloud computing on multi-session Windows 10 with Windows Virtual Desktops.

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