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The AlmaLinux 8.7 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 23.07-0.5.1.2
  • Pre-configured IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand)
  • Popular InfiniBand based MPI Libraries
    • HPC-X v2.16
    • IntelMPI 2021.9.0
    • MVAPICH2 2.3.7-1
    • OpenMPI 4.1.5
  • Communication Runtimes
    • Libfabric
    • OpenUCX
  • Optimized libraries
    • AMD Blis 4.0
    • AMD FFTW 4.0
    • AMD Flame 4.0
    • Intel MKL 2023.2.0.49497
  • GCC 9.2.0
  • GPU Drivers
    • Nvidia GPU Driver 535.86.10
  • NCCL - 2.19.3-1
    • NCCL RDMA Sharp Plugin
  • NV Peer Memory (GPU Direct RDMA)
  • GDRCopy 2.3
  • Data Center GPU Manager 3.1.8
  • Moby
  • Docker 24.0.7-1

Deploying HPC VM Images :

The HPC VM images are available from Azure Marketplace, and they 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 an HPC VM image.

The AlmaLinux 8.7 Image is available in the marketplace with the following URIs :

almalinux:almalinux-hpc:8-hpc-gen1:8.7.2023111401
almalinux:almalinux-hpc:8_7-hpc-gen1:8.7.2023111401

almalinux:almalinux-hpc:8-hpc-gen2:8.7.2023111401
almalinux:almalinux-hpc:8_7-hpc-gen2:8.7.2023111401