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My first day on Microsoft Windows Azure HPC - Part 1 of 2

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 called as Affinity Group. So, cr