HPC Server 2008R2

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Beta 1 is the next generation in High Performance Computing for Microsoft. Please join Alex Sutton from the Microsoft HPC engineering team as he presents an overview of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 beta 1.   Alex  will cover new features for cluster…

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…

  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…

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…

Statistical data analysis is a key part of the operations of just about every business today. But as data sets get larger, analyzing trends or generating predictions becomes more and more of a challenge. If you're doing predictive modeling today and find that you can no longer use all of your…

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 provides users with several new features that improve managing and scheduling jobs on the cluster.  The progress of jobs can now be seen easily seen in the Scheduler interface, and tasks can provide custom messages about their progress.  The Scheduler also…

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…

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…

Just for partners!  Learn how to integrate and deliver complete Windows HPC Server solutions to your customers. This webcast will provide the Windows HPC partner ecosystem background that you need to sell and deliver high value services and solutions for the Windows HPC Server 2008…

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…