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The A8-A11 and H-series sizes are also known as compute-intensive instances. The hardware that runs these sizes is designed and optimized for compute-intensive and network-intensive applications, including high-performance computing (HPC) cluster applications, modeling, and simulations. The A8-A11 series uses Intel Xeon E5-2670 @ 2.6 GHZ and the H-series uses Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 @ 3.2 GHz.

Azure H-series virtual machines are the next generation high performance computing VMs aimed at high end computational needs, like molecular modeling, and computational fluid dynamics. These 8 and 16 core VMs are built on the Intel Haswell E5-2667 V3 processor technology featuring DDR4 memory and local SSD based storage.

In addition to the substantial CPU power, the H-series offers diverse options for low latency RDMA networking using FDR InfiniBand and several memory configurations to support memory intensive computational requirements.

H-series

ACU: 290-300

Size CPU cores Memory: GiB Local SSD: GiB Max data disks Max disk throughput: IOPS Max NICs / Network bandwidth
Standard_H8 8 56 1000 16 16 x 500 2 / high
Standard_H16 16 112 2000 32 32 x 500 4 / very high
Standard_H8m 8 112 1000 16 16 x 500 2 / high
Standard_H16m 16 224 2000 32 32 x 500 4 / very high
Standard_H16r* 16 112 2000 32 32 x 500 4 / very high
Standard_H16mr* 16 224 2000 32 32 x 500 4 / very high

*RDMA capable


A-series - compute-intensive instances

ACU: 225

Size CPU cores Memory: GiB Local HDD: GiB Max data disks Max data disk throughput: IOPS Max NICs / Network bandwidth
Standard_A8* 8 56 382 16 16x500 2 / high
Standard_A9* 16 112 382 16 16x500 4 / very high
Standard_A10 8 56 382 16 16x500 2 / high
Standard_A11 16 112 382 16 16x500 4 / very high

*RDMA capable