Overview
This engagement assesses your current HPC environment and maps technical, operational, and financial requirements to Azure HPC capabilities before a proof of concept or full migration.
What You Will Gain
- Migration Clarity: Understand how your current HPC environment aligns with Azure HPC capabilities.
- Performance Insights: Assess scalability, burst capacity, and expected performance in Azure.
- Cost Transparency: Evaluate cost considerations and potential optimization opportunities.
- Reduced Risk: Make informed decisions before committing to a proof of concept or full migration.
What Is Included
Scope includes technical and operational assessment, feasibility validation, and executive-ready recommendations for next steps.
- Comprehensive review of HPC infrastructure covering compute, storage, networking, and software.
- Analysis of workloads, applications, job scheduling, and performance patterns.
- Feasibility assessment of application and data compatibility with Azure HPC.
- Security, compliance, and high-level cost analysis.
- Executive-ready report summarizing findings, insights, and recommended next steps.
- High-level roadmap for Azure HPC adoption.
Engagement Timeline
- Discovery & Objectives: Stakeholder interviews, define success criteria, establish scope
- Current State Analysis: Review HPC infrastructure, workloads, performance patterns, and costs
- Azure HPC Feasibility & Analysis: Evaluate application compatibility, architectural considerations, and performance potential
- Security, Compliance & Cost Review: Assess Azure security, compliance, and pricing benefits
- Overall Duration: Typically 3–5 Weeks
- Timeline and scope may vary based on the size and complexity of the HPC environment
Who This Offer Is For
- Organizations with on-premises or hybrid HPC environments considering migration to Azure.
- Teams needing clarity on feasibility, performance, and costs before committing to PoC or full migration.
- IT and infrastructure leaders planning large-scale HPC cloud adoption.
Prerequisites
- Access to infrastructure documentation and relevant stakeholders.
- Understanding that this engagement focuses on assessment and planning, not workload migration.
- Detailed performance testing may require a follow-on proof of concept.
- Final scope and duration depend on the environment’s size and complexity.
