Microsoft Events presents a session led by Dave Salvator, showcasing how NVIDIA Blackwell architecture and Azure cloud enable high-performance, secure, and scalable AI workloads for agentic and physical applications.

Power Next-Generation AI Workloads with NVIDIA Blackwell on Azure

Presented by Microsoft Events at Microsoft Ignite 2025, this session explains how next-generation AI workloads are powered by NVIDIA Blackwell architecture integrated with Microsoft Azure cloud services.

Key Topics

  • Agentic and Physical AI: Introduction to new AI paradigms for autonomous reasoning and robotics.
  • NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture: Breakthroughs in accelerated computing for complex AI tasks including multimodal inference and simulation.
  • Azure Collaboration: Secure and flexible deployment leveraging Azure’s capabilities for scalable AI solutions.
  • Multi-Dimensional AI Design: Introduction of new framework and acronyms for designing advanced AI systems.
  • Extreme Co-Design & Mixture of Experts (MoE): Techniques to optimize AI model communication and performance.
  • NVLink Acceleration: Performance optimization through advanced GPU interconnects and Pareto curve analysis.
  • Confidential Computing: Secure AI execution using Azure and NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs for privacy and compliance.
  • RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition: Dedicated hardware for visualization and AI-focused workloads.
  • Omniverse Platform: Use cases in manufacturing and warehouse optimization via simulation-driven AI agents.

Session Chapters

  • 0:00: AI Factories and Fine-Tuning Lifecycle with Azure Collaboration
  • 8:48: Building AI Super Factories on Azure
  • 11:22: Multi-Dimensional AI Design Frameworks
  • 13:54: Co-Design and MoE Model Communication
  • 14:56: NVLink Acceleration and Performance Analysis
  • 21:57: Confidential Computing on H100 GPU
  • 22:11: RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for Visualization
  • 33:17: Omniverse Simulation for Physical AI
  • 34:29: Omniverse Use Cases: Manufacturing, Warehouses

Real-World Applications

  • Efficient AI operations for manufacturing and logistics
  • Physical AI agents and simulation with Omniverse
  • Secured AI workloads on Azure for enterprise needs

Reference

More Microsoft Ignite sessions: https://ignite.microsoft.com

Speaker: Dave Salvator, Microsoft Events