Microsoft provides an HPC Pack for Windows Server 2012 and 2016 and Linux machines. This is a free offering and you can use this to create HPC clusters on your on-premises servers and Azure VMs.
You can install HPC Pack on a Windows or Linux server. These machines will automatically become the head nodes of the cluster. You can then add additional nodes to the cluster and run a job on it. This job will be distributed across all of the available nodes automatically.
It offers the following additional features:
- Hybrid cluster: You can set up hybrid clusters using on-premises servers and Azure VMs.
- HPC Cluster Manager: This is a tool for managing, deploying, and configuring HPC clusters.
- PowerShell: You can use HPC PowerShell to manage, configure, deploy, add, and execute jobs on the cluster.
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