Creating and Using an HPC Cluster in Azure to run Python Scripts

One of the benefits of using the cloud to handle large computing workloads is virtually limitless scalability. In Microsoft Azure, you can create a cluster of virtual machines (VMs) networked to form a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster in a matter of minutes. If you need more computing power than the cluster can provide, you can scale up by creating a cluster with larger and more capable virtual machines (more cores, more RAM, etc.), or you can scale out by creating a cluster with more nodes.