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...
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.
We are very excited to share with you the news of a major achievement for the Microsoft HPC program. Running Windows HPC Server 2008 the HPC Performance Team recently completed a Top500 run on the fastest HPC cluster at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). This specific cluster...
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...
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...
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Over at windowshpc.net Barndawgie (?) has written a great post about scheduling jobs for a Windows HPC cluster via templates. So called Job templates are by no means something new, so why even bother to blog about it? Well, turns out the product group has received a lot of questions about how to use...
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May is the month of HPC webcasts focusing on several aspects of Windows HPC Server 2008 and beyond. Please pay attention to these webcasts: 5/9/2008 08:00 AM : Windows HPC Server 2008: Management and Diagnostics in High-Performance Computing (Level 200), Giovanni Marchetti 5/23/2008 08:00 AM ...
Giovanni has put together an excellent document highlighting a specific industry and how it leverages high performance computing (HPC). He also explains what Microsoft has got to do with it and why Microsoft is a perfect match with its set of platforms and technologies. Check out his post " HPC...
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Best thing you can do to a Mac Mini? No, wait, certainly not the right way to start this post. I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a 2 or more node HPC cluster and a head node. Once you followed the steps outlined in the videos you will be able to install a fully...
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Just in case you missed this: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/mar08/03-18UPCRCPR.mspx Today Microsoft and Intel announced a joint initiative to fund two universal parallel programming research centers. One will be located at UC Berkeley, the second will be at the University of Illinois...
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