CentOS 8.1 HPC Image - 20200409
The CentOS 8.1 HPC Image includes optimizations and recommended configurations to deliver optimal performance, consistency, and reliability. This image consists of the following HPC tools and libraries:
- Mellanox OFED 5.0-2
- Pre-configured IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand)
- Popular InfiniBand based MPI Libraries
- HPC-X 2.6.0
- IntelMPI 2019 Update 7
- MVAPICH2 2.3.3
- MVAPICH2X 2.3.rc3
- OpenMPI 4.0.3
- Communication Runtimes
- Libfabric
- OpenUCX
- Optimized libraries
- AMD Blis 2.0
- AMD FFTW 2.0
- AMD Flame 2.0
- Intel MKL 2019.5.281
- GCC 9.2.0
Deploying HPC VM Images:
The HPC VM images are available from Azure Marketplace, and it can be deployed through a variety of deployment vehicles (CycleCloud, Batch, ARM templates, etc).
AzureHPC scripts provide an easy way to quickly deploy an HPC cluster using HPC VM image.