Subscribers to "cloud" Azure service have opened access to supercomputers Cray. The new service will allow Microsoft's business customers to shift the distributed high-load computations associated with simulating resource-intensive processes, modelling, machine learning and artificial intelligence onto the shoulders of the platform.

As reported by hitech.vesti.ru, high-performance computing clusters Cray XC and Cray CS, as well as storage system ClusterStor, were added to the Azure lineup. Super-power Cray systems can be used, for example, for financial simulations, biomedical simulations, space research and modelling of climate change.

Cray XC50, equipped with chips Piz Daint from Nvidia, takes the place of the third most productive supercomputer in the world. According to the authoritative TOP500 rating for June, the Swiss system is second only to the two "Chinese" - Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2.