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...
You all know Virtual Labs , right? If not, here are the first four good reasons to get them to know better. Jason just posted the first 4 labs about Windows Server 2008 technologies. And more to come! New to Virtual Labs? Here's the gist from about the portal: "Try out products in a virtual...
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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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YES, RC0 of the Microsoft virtualization solution Hyper-V is available for download. John Howard has an excellent and extensive blog post about the details. Please pay close attention to his post and read 'til the end before you install the bits! It is important to follow the steps outlines in John's...
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You don't want to miss the new serverunleashed.com . When I saw the internal announcement I thought: "Well, a robot. Ok, so what's new?" I was about to *** about it. Good I waited. Pretty agile boy the new Windows Server 2008. Best thing: That's him ... or it ... or ... whatever...
Today's the day. Windows Server 2008 officially launches. The keynote is currently on and you can watch it live here: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualevents/vle.aspx . Today is a day the whole company has worked for for a long time very, very hard. I believe it was worth every day, every hour and...
TechRepublic published an article about the" 10 things you should know about virtualization." If you are new to the whole virtualization thing, it will certainly get you started. The author, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, is right, "Virtualization is a huge topic, and this article is only meant...
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My boss Neil just published a post on "Application Considerations When Upgrading to Windows Server 2008." Very nice and complete article. This should be your first read if you are in the process of evaluating Windows Server 2008. Content: Changes When Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 Upgrade...
You are looking for very affordable hardware to build a (perhaps virtual) HPC cluster? You are looking for a test version of Windows Compute Cluster Server? Here's one way to get both. Last week Microsoft ran an internal event for technical professionals at Microsoft. It is the internal TechEd event...
A Reason to Celebrate. From an evangelist point of view, today is THE day. Windows Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). This day the whole company has been working for very hard. Both, Windows Server 2008 RTM and Vista SP1 are important milestones for Microsoft. Being a server evangelist...