Microsoft Azure

This page contains information about clusters hosted on Microsoft Azure1 and their hardware specifications.

Clusters

The following table provides information about available clusters on Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform. The latest cluster status can be found on Clusters page in web application.

Name Hostname Location
cluster-007 master-production-20160630-cluster-007.exabyte.io East US

Queues

The list of currently enabled queues is given below. Price per core hour is shown in relation to the relative unit price and is subject to change at any time. Total number of nodes can be increased upon request.

Name Category2 Mode3 Charge Policy4 Price Max Nodes per Job+ Max Nodes Total
D debug debug core-seconds 4.002 1 10
OR ordinary regular core-seconds 1.275 1 10
OF ordinary fast core-hours 1.275 ≤5 100
OFplus ordinary fast core-hours 1.275 5 10
SR saving regular core-seconds 0.379 1 10
SF saving fast core-hours 0.379 1* 100
SFplus saving fast core-hours 0.379 5 10
GPOF ordinary fast core-hours 6.110 ≤5 10
GP2OF ordinary fast core-hours 6.110 ≤5 10
GP4OF ordinary fast core-hours 6.110 ≤5 10
GPSF saving fast core-hours 1.222 ≤5 10
GP2SF saving fast core-hours 1.222 ≤5 10
GP4SF saving fast core-hours 1.222 ≤5 10

+ please contact support to inquire about attempting a larger node count per job

* presently the infrastructure limitations are not allowing for the multi-node communication in SF queue, so only single-node jobs should be attempted (as of Oct 2022)

Hardware Specifications

The following table contains hardware specifications for the above queues.

Name CPU5 Cores per Node GPU6 GPU per Node Memory (GB) Bandwidth (Gb/sec)
D c-7 16 - - 32 ≤10
OR c-6 44 - - 352 100
OF c-6 44 - - 352 100
OFplus c-6 44 - - 352 100
SR c-6 44 - - 352 100
SF c-6 44 - - 352 100
SFPlus c-6 44 - - 352 100
GPOF c-2 6 g-2 1 112 10
GP2OF c-2 12 g-2 2 224 10
GP4OF c-2 24 g-2 4 448 10
GPSF c-2 6 g-2 1 112 10
GP2SF c-2 12 g-2 2 224 10
GP4SF c-2 24 g-2 4 448 10

  1. Microsoft Azure, Website ↩

  2. Queue Cost Categories, Website ↩

  3. Queue Provision Modes, Website ↩

  4. Charge polices, Website ↩

  5. CPU types, Website ↩

  6. GPU types, Website ↩

  7. Azure high performance compute virtual machines, Website ↩