Name: Parveen Kumar
Designation: Technical Solution Professional, Azure
Company: Microsoft
Topic of Talk: A Deep Dive on HPC on Azure
About the Talk:
Enabling Open Source community infrastructure available with ease and on demand basis. Azure provides flexible solutions to distribute work and scale to thousands of VMs or cores and then scale down when you need fewer resources. The differentiators which makes Azure as the choice of cloud for HPC application. Azure cloud to efficiently run compute-intensive Linux and Windows workloads. Different type of hardware CPU/GPUs/FPGAs and specialized infrastructure is made available which can support very large no of cores.
About the Speaker:
Parveen Kumar has graduated in Computer Science and Engineering from Punjab Engineering College. Worked as software developer in field of Telecommunication. He has worked in different capacity such as Business Development, Solution Architecting and Application Engineering. Currently working with Microsoft as part of organization having expertise in various industry segments. He is responsible for solution designing in high-performance computing on Azure platform. With more the 20 years of Industry experience he carries expertise in HPC domain for more than a decade. Worked for Multinational companies such as SGI, Intel, Fujitsu and Oracle building solution involving complex design. He has represented Microsoft at various event.