Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for High Performance Computing (HPC) on Azure

• Direct support from Red Hat (Important! You will need to activate your support subscription. Click here for more details)
• Red Hat Hybrid Committed Spend eligible
• Flexible pricing options available via Private Offers
• RHEL virtual machine image for North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America (Click here for EMEA)

RHEL for HPC is a preferred platform for many of the world's most complex scientific computing problems. This initial release for RHEL for HPC on Azure includes a base RHEL image with an Ansible system role to install several commonly used tools and libraries to reduce the time and energy needed to set up your environment, including:

• NVIDIA CUDA
• NVIDIA NCCL
• Open MPI
• RDMA Core
• NVIDIA Fabric Manager

This offering provides full access to the next release (tentatively scheduled for 2026) which will include an even more comprehensive set of tools, libraries, and optimizations that are critical for HPC to make it even easier to deploy HPC workloads on Azure.

This RHEL image delivers the consistency you expect from RHEL with built-in Azure-specific configurations to ensure performance, integration and observability in your Azure-based RHEL systems.

• Pre-configured Azure-specific performance profiles for faster, consistent deployments
• Collect, analyze, and visualize performance and diagnostic data via Azure Monitor
• Azure CLI (azure-cli) provides command line interface management of RHEL for Azure images and resources
• Optional automated updates and rollbacks for faster operations with reduced risk

Procurement

• Hourly pay-as-you-go pricing based on instance size and vCPU quantity.
• Flexible pricing options via Azure Private Offers are available for organizations with large deployments or other extenuating circumstances. Please contact your Red Hat account team or Red Hat partner for more details.

Developers

• Build faster with developer-friendly tools and features accelerate application development and deliver efficient and convenient access to reliable OS images in Azure. Toolchains, libraries, container tools, and runtimes are integrated into your Azure environment.
• Save time with streamlined management and automation with built-in workflow automation tools and integration with Red Hat Ansible® Automation Platform. System roles, a collection of supported workflows, enable you to rapidly and consistently configure multiple instances using the same automation playbooks.
• Direct support from Red Hat's award-winning support team with 24x7 access to Red Hat support engineers 24x7 for high-severity issues, and access to our Knowledgebase and other tools available in our Customer Portal.

System Administrators and Corporate IT

• Reduce risk with security resources and tooling: Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides built-in security features and security profiles to reduce risk and maintain compliance.
• Diminish downtime with integrated analytics and remediation: Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes Red Hat Lightspeed, which provides proactive, AI-powered management and advanced security capabilities. Gain visibility into business, operations, and security risks to proactively identify and mitigate issues across your infrastructure – before they impact your bottom line. Red Hat Lightspeed is Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) approved.
• Streamline management and automation with Red Hat Satellite (included) automates common tasks and lets you provision, maintain, and upgrade your entire infrastructure—including all of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems—in physical, virtualized, and cloud environments from a single console.
• Increase stability with Extended Update Support (EUS) is included and provides Critical and Important impact security updates and urgent-priority bug fixes for a predefined set of minor releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. EUS enables you to remain on the same minor release for 24 months, allowing for stable production environments