Diagnostics

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Read the full post >> Host Jonathan Rozenblit is always on the search for stories of Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. Canada Does Windows Azure shares their stories. This is the…

Kathy Palmer, Lead Program Manager of the HPC Team, presents the management and monitoring enhancements released with R2.  The notion of personal supercomputing is a core operational paradigm that is rapidly evolving in the numerical computing ecosphere.  Various visualization aids, such…

Part Two explores cluster management and demonstrates how major administrative tasks are performed from a single integrated console: Configuration & Deployment, Monitoring, Node Management, Job Management, Reporting, and Diagnostics.

Rae Wang, Senior Program Manager on the Windows HPC Team enumerates the diagnostics and reporting features available in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.  Microsoft designed comprehensive diagnostics to assist with granular troubleshooting, empowering administrators, ISVs, and IHVs to address…

When working with an HPC cluster- including thousands of machines and many different hardware components and software packages- errors and failures are unavoidable. As a result, most HPC administrators spend a large majority of their time on diagnostics. Windows HPC Server 2008, the current…

In this screencast, we'll take a look at monitoring Azure applications by capturing event logs and performance counters.  We'll also look at using powershell to deploy and configure applications using the management API.  Finally, we'll take a sneak peek at Azure Diagnostics Manager, a…

Administrators of HPC setups know the headaches involved when something goes wrong on the cluster.   To make things easier for cluster admins, the Diagnostics panel in the Cluster Manager on HPC Server 2008 R2 beta1 provides a variety of tests to help admins quickly figure out the…

Windows Development Manager Melur Raghuraman and team have taken troubleshooting and diagnostics to a whole new level in Windows 7. For one thing, Windows 7 uses managed code "natively" as PowerShell has become the de facto language used for creating diagnostic algorithms that live inside…

The Windows 7 project involved very efficient software engineering planning and execution. It is no surprise that an equivalent level of efficiency exists throughout the OS (efficiency in how the OS deals with faults, threads, memory management, power management, process…