HPC Server 2008

Excel is often used as the programming environment for developing complex simulations and parameter studies, particularly in the financial and biomedical industries.  Windows HPC Server 2008 includes several features that enable Excel users to harness the power of cluster computing to make…

This video looks at improvements in the R2 version of HPCS 2008 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).  Application programmability, infrastructure, and manageability have all been improved.  Enhancements to features such as active & passive brokers, file & recollect, and…

  Using diskless compute nodes provides many advantages, including improved reliability, reduced cost, and greater security.  HPC Server 2008 R2 beta1 allows clusters to boot over the network, allowing nodes to be diskless.  This video describes how technologies such as…

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 HPC Server 2008 R2 beta1 has several features for managing clusters ranging from small-scale setups to divisional scale (1000 node) hardware.  In this video, Cathy Palmer demonstrates some of the features of HPC Server 2008R2 beta1 that allow for at-a-glance monitoring of large…

In this video, Daniel Moth demonstrates features in Visual Studio 2010 that make it easy for developers to debug MPI applications. You can see how easy it is to start using the MPI cluster debugger, which allows developers to easily launch an MPI application on multiple nodes, set breakpoints,…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth   Introduction: Developers using MPI to develop applications, have been experiencing severe productivity pains when it came to debugging those apps on the Windows HPC 2008 cluster. This video shows how easy "F5" now is for C++ MPI…

Before a plane flies for the first time, in the sky, it has flown many thousands of virtual miles in distributed clusters of computation cells, calculating non-linear differential equations of fluid dynamics.  Intelligent Light, with its Fortran and Python writing programmers, represents a…

Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces innovative features for traditional High Performance Computing solutions.    Significant improvements have been implemented across the entire HPC stack.  Learn about the new NetworkDirect RDMA technology and how it enables very fast,…

High Performance Computing has its roots in non-commercial, academic, national lab and governmental environments where very large, compute-intensive workloads and applications are executed.  According to recent data from IDC HPC, economically-attractive clusters have become the common…