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