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Continuing with my previous article, today I am going to share my one more experience with HPC.  Nowadays, there are lots of links available on net, which tell, how to submit a job to Azure HPC Scheduler. I also explored most of them, and found that almost all are talking about job submission from cloud premise(Front or Head node). But nowhere was it mentioned how to submit a job from outside of cloud vicinity. I came across this issue, while working on one of my assignments. After hitting my head, finally I found a way to do this. When we are talking about interaction between cloud and on-premise, then first thing come into our mind is network. Here definitely, TCP won’t work. There are few transport schemes available in Azure HPC framework. After exploring them, I found one as WebAPI and wow, that suits my requirement. I just used WebAPI as transport scheme, by modifying the name of the headnode to complete host name (i.e. <headNodeName>.cloudapp.net) and get my issu...

Recently I entered into the Azure’s HPC world and thought to share something, which I learnt from my experience as a beginner. Today is my first step towards the Azure’s HPC.  I just downloaded the sample service and followed the configuration instructions. But even after following those, I faced few difficulties during this journey. So, here I am sharing that experience only. Hope it will be useful for all newbies. I feel that below are the few points, which are directly related to the application performance. 1)       Affinity Group – While working on cloud, the first thing comes into mind is performance and throughput. And in order to gain better throughput and performance, one need to make sure that all our services and storage accounts hosted on the cloud are located in proximity, which will reduce data transfer time. So, to bring all the services and storage closer, we can keep all of them in a group. And in Azure’s term, this group is cal...