We’re thrilled to announce that WEKA now supports Azure CycleCloud, empowering enterprises and researchers to supercharge their HPC workflows with the world’s fastest, most scalable data platform on Azure. Azure CycleCloud brings the flexibility and power of traditional HPC environments to the cloud, making it easy to deploy, manage, and optimize HPC clusters that scale elastically based on your needs.

With WEKA support for Azure CycleCloud, organizations can build high-performance data platforms that dramatically accelerate time-to-insight, scale effortlessly with demand, and maximize the value of their Azure investment. This partnership opens new doors for HPC workloads, driving groundbreaking advancements across genomics, drug discovery, geosciences, AI, and more.

Transforming Industries with Cloud-Powered HPC

The integration of cloud computing platforms like Microsoft Azure is revolutionizing HPC workloads across industries. Genomics researchers are yielding new therapeutic breakthroughs in record time. Computational chemists are accelerating drug discovery workflows to develop new treatments and therapies. Geoscientists deploy large-scale LIDAR data analysis for resource discovery and risk management. Modern HPC workflows combined with the power of the cloud are unleashing a new era of innovation, and Azure CycleCloud is the tool that is helping make that happen. It orchestrates HPC systems so that they size elastically according to the tasks at hand, without the hassle of managing Azure building blocks. CycleCloud is designed by a team of experienced HPC professionals and provides HPC administrators and users with familiar HPC tools and experience with Azure’s elasticity and flexibility.

Addressing Data Complexity in HPC

Despite advancements in GPU compute and high-speed networking, many organizations need help with data bottlenecks that limit progress. Legacy data infrastructures, scaling issues, and manual data management hinder productivity and increase costs. Scaling and performance limitations in legacy data result in low GPU utilization and long epoch times while HPC applications wait for data loading and analysis. Manual approaches for caching or pre-fetching data designed to accelerate the storage platform result in extra manual work from developers, reducing overall productivity. Overprovisioning storage resources to meet performance goals results in unexpectedly high costs for cloud infrastructure.

WEKA support for Azure CycleCloud allows enterprises and research organizations to build a high-performance data platform that accelerates time to new scientific discoveries while dramatically reducing costs. WEKA was built from the ground up to drive faster HPC workloads in the cloud. Our high-performance storage layer, combined with WEKA’s single namespace architecture, delivers exceptional performance across all workloads—from flash to low-cost object storage. WEKA’s zero-tuning, zero-copy architecture eliminates these roadblocks, enabling over 90% GPU utilization (up from typical rates of 30-35%) and reducing epoch times from weeks to hours, all while reducing storage costs through seamless integration with Azure Blob storage.

Simplified Deployment & Seamless Integration

Customers can quickly build with WEKA for Azure CycleCloud by deploying directly into their Azure subscription. WEKA is available through the Azure marketplace and deploys directly to your organization’s Azure tenant. With intuitive deployment via Terraform templates or the WEKA Cloud Deployment Manager, integrating WEKA into your CycleCloud workflows has never been easier.

Join us in redefining what’s possible for HPC in the cloud.