HPC

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, Wade is joined by Wenming Ye—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—who explains how to use HPC on Windows Azure. Wenming shows how you can use…

If there were a special geek merit badge for those whose desktop PC has the word "CRAY" across the front, Wenming Ye would have plenty of them. Wenming works just down the hallway from us on Channel 9 exploring the possibilities of HPC (High Performance Computing). I wanted Niners to meet…

ParaView is an open source tool for display and analysis of large scale scientific data sets. This video teaches new users how to use ParaView to visualize their data. In the video we demonstrate how to use the different parts of ParaView's user interface, show where to go to find further…

In this video we demonstrate how to run ParaView scalably with the Microsoft HPC Server. We describe the requirements for accessing, processing and rendering your data in parallel and demonstrate parallel visualization with a challenging meterological data set. We explain our pipeline which first…

A high level synopsis of Microsoft's Technical Computing offerings is presented by Ryan Waite, General Manager for High Performance Computing.  The sheer size of generated data is a key driver in today's computational ecosphere.  By the end of 2010, over 1.2 zetabyte of data will have…

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…

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 episode of “Azure Lessons Learned” Rob Fraser from RiskMetrics talks about the work they’ve done with Windows Azure to scale some of their heavy computational workloads out to thousands of nodes on Windows Azure. RiskMetrics specializes in helping to manage risk for financial…

IPython (http://ipython.scipy.org/) enables parallel computations to be performed interactively.  In this screeencast, we show how IPython can be used to study a large number of digits of pi in parallel. In particular, we calculate the frequency of all 2 digit sequences in the first 150…

Please join Clustercorp and Microsoft to learn about Rocks+Hybrid -- a combination of the commercial version of the Rocks® Cluster Distribution for Linux and Microsoft Windows® HPC Server 2008.  The joint solution is a simple to use product for deploying dual-boot HPC systems that run…