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Wenming has collected the most valuable Windows HPC Server 2008 technical resources in one place, http://ResourceKit.WindowsHPC.net . It is a great collection of technical documents, presentations and training for developer and IT Professionals. Everything you need to get started and beyond in one convenient...
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InnovateOn is a central resource to help you build, test, and market your solution based on Microsoft technologies. Hidden in the “My Benefits” section is a great resource for HPC interested parties. It is an eBook available in English and German. The book has been built in collaboration with Intel....
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As part of the IBM Deep Computing initiative you can now test drive Windows HPC Server 2008 without download/install and all of that. IBM® Computing on Demand For only $99 you can test drive a “scalable 14-16 node environment” via the IBM website . Make sure you select Microsoft Windows as target OS...
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of its latest version of the HPC platform Windows HPC Server 2008. This is the second version of the product. It ships with with some significant enhancements over the previous version. Web services integration and a greatly enhanced scheduler are among...
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No way you think? Think again. Microsoft and Cray have joined forces to create an offer the HPC market cannot resist! The Cray CX1 . High productivity computing for the masses. Go to the CX1 website , configure and buy online . That's what I call democratizing high performance computing. The power...
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From their press announcement today: "RenderMan Pro Server 14.0 introduces significant performance enhancements including accelerated ray-tracing, faster processing of large polygon datasets, optimized hair performance, faster AOV's, and enhanced threading scalability. New core features that...
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Later this year Microsoft ships the second version of the Windows HPC Server SKU, Windows HPC Server 2008. This product is a real milestone product for Microsoft and – I certainly hope – for the industry as a whole. Tejas Karmarkar a HPC Solution Specialist at Microsoft : "Microsoft...
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On his Channel 9 show Phil asks a loaded question: " Are You Sane? Who's sane these days anyway? Ok, don't digress (again), Volker. Of course his question is not about the sanity of the reader but about a great tool to check the sanity of a Windows HPC cluster called uSane. If you are interested...
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Quietly over the past weeks the HPC Show on Channel9 has grown its content quite a bit. The product group and the evangelism team is working hard to make the features we ship with Windows HPC Server 2008 transparent for the target audience. The latest addition is a series of 4 screencasts covering the...
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Recently Giovanni finished his series of 4 screencasts about setting up Windows HPC Server 2008 for high availability. Since posting the first screencast back end of May the series has over 25,000 downloads/views. Learn from the expert how to cluster Windows HPC Server 2008 for high availability: HPC...
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Aleksey Savateyev, one of the Microsoft HPC architects in the platform evangelism team, just released a new white paper on performance tuning for applications on CCS 2003. You can find this and many other valuable resources on the Microsoft HPC community portal . Go to windowshpc.net to find out more...
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Giovanni is convinced that Windows HPC Server 2008 is now playing with the big boys. Find out why and what IB , Network Direct and 2 GB/sec have to do with it in his recent blog post. I thought the recent announcement was already proof enough or at least a good indication.
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Dr. Patrice Calegari , HPC Application Specialist, BULL S.A.S. and Thomas Varlet , HPC Technology Solution Professional from Microsoft just posted a great technical document covering "Dual-Boot and Virtualization with Windows HPC Server 2008 and Linux Bull Advanced Server for Xeon." The paper...
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Wenming - our newest team member on the HPC evangelism team in Redmond - just started his HPC blog on MSDN. You can read his Problogue here .
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The blogs on windowshpc.net are picking up steam. Great to see more and more folks from the product group starting to post! I missed one from a few days ago but wanted to bring it to your attention anyway. Yutong Sun posted a blog entry about using Hyper-V virtual machines to set up a Windows HPC Server...