Microsoft Windows Server HPC Learning Course

General programming experience and general knowledge about operating systems and computing platforms.

Units in this course

Overview
This introductory unit presents the motivation for using High Performance Computing. It covers the conceptual basics and presents HPC Server 2008, explaining what can it do for you and how can you start using it. You will also have a glance over how to develop applications that take advantage of the…
Application Development
Developing programs that can execute in parallel to tackle huge amounts of data or very complex calculation needs some specific patterns and techniques. This unit introduces the problem space and the Message Passing Interface, a programming model widely adopted by the industry with implementations…
SOA and WCF
Service Oriented Architectures are key to leverage the power of High Performance Computing from other types of platforms, exposing services to solve particular problems as part of a solution that leverage HPC capabilities, while preserving more traditional programming models for the the rest. This…
Administration
An important part of leveraging an HPC platform is to have an efficient process for setup, administration and integration of clusters and nodes. This unit explains how to start implementing the platform, schedule jobs and use templates, diagnose and troubleshoot, monitor and tune performance, and…