Entries tagged with hpc - Channel 9

VS2010 MPI Cluster Debugger launch integration

Daniel Moth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:14:00 GMT

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 cluster applications.

Read about the feature here.

Silverlight and HPC Enable On-Demand Engineering Design

Mike Ormond — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:00 GMT

dezineforce (http://www.dezineforce.com) recently completed a proof-of-concept with Microsoft to look at how they could overhaul their user experience using Silverlight 3.

dezineforce offer a scalable, on-demand engineering design capability over the web. Backed by a powerful HPC cluster, their front-end web interface is currently built using HTML and AJAX. They were keen to explore opportunities to build an enhanced experience for their users.

In this video I chat to some of the people involved in the project to get their perspective on the project and the results.

Digipede and Grid Computing on the Windows Platform

ashishjaiman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:04:00 GMT

An interview with John Powers, CEO of Digipede Technologies, on grid computing and application performance on the Windows platform. Digipede delivers the only grid computing solution based entirely on .NET and has helped Microsoft make important inroads into grid and high performance computing (HPC) markets. We talked with John about how Digipede simplifies the process mainstream Windows developers use to adapt single-threaded object-oriented code to run on multiple cores on a chip, multiple chips in a computer and multiple computers on a grid. Digipede is a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV Partner and winner of the 2007 ISV Innovation Partner of the Year award. Developers watching this video can get a free copy of the Digipede Network Developer Edition by visiting www.digipede.net/faster.

SC08: Windows HPC: Math Libs - Visual Numerics (VNI)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:21:00 GMT

Visual Numerics, Inc. rep discusses and demos the VNI math library (native and .NET versions), as well as their PV-Wave graphical environment for manipulating and visualizing data.

SC08: Windows HPC: Parallelizing Matlab with Star-P (Part 2 of 2)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:07:00 GMT

SC08: ISC rep discusses parallelizing matlab code with Star-P technology.

SC08: Windows HPC: Matlab & Parallelization (Part 1 of 3)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:55:00 GMT

SC08: Loren Dean, a Director of Engineering at The MathWorks, discusses latest features of parallel MATLAB which enable users to parallelize their MATLAB code to take advantage of a variety of compute resources multi-core desktops, clusters, and even grids and cloud computing services.

SC08: Windows HPC: Matlab & Parallelization (Part 2 of 3)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:53:00 GMT

SC08: Windows HPC: Matlab & Parallelization (Part 3 of 3)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:52:00 GMT

SC08: Windows HPC: Debugging MPI programs with Marmot (Part 1 of 2)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:29:00 GMT

SC08: ZIH Researcher discusses and demos the Marmot MPI debugging, analysis and tracing tool for Windows HPC.

SC08: Windows HPC: Debugging MPI programs with Marmot (Part 2 of 2)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:25:00 GMT

SC08: ZIH Researcher discusses and demos the Marmot MPI debugging, analysis and tracing tool for Windows HPC.

SC08: Windows HPC: Augmented Reality (Part 1 of 2)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:22:00 GMT

SC08: HLRS researchers discuss and demo cool visualization, virtual and augmented reality environments.

SC08: Windows HPC: Augmented Reality (Part 2 of 2)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:21:00 GMT

SC08: HLRS researchers discuss and demo cool visualization, virtual and augmented reality environments.

SC08: Windows HPC: Cluster SOA Parallel Programming Model (Part 1 of 2)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:19:00 GMT

SC08: Windows HPC Server 2008 has a new programming model called Cluster SOA. In this video, Ming Xu of Microsoft, gives an overview of Cluster SOA.

SC08: Windows HPC: Cluster SOA Parallel Programming Model (Part 2 of 2)

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:17:00 GMT

SC08: Windows HPC Server 2008 has a new programming model called Cluster SOA. In this video, Ming Xu of Microsoft, gives an overview of Cluster SOA.

SC08: Windows HPC: Parallel File Systems: GPFS

Wenming Ye — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:15:00 GMT

SC08: IBM rep discusses and demos the high performance parallel file system GPFS which will soon be available with full client and server support for WHPC2008.

Windows HPC Server Development, the MPI Application Model

Wenming Ye — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:42:00 GMT

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-bandwidth, distributed shared memory computing. MS MPI is now integrated with Event Tracing for Windows easing the task of profiling, analysis, and visualization of HPC solution performance. A new Job Scheduler architecture delivers impressive performance while also enabling intelligent scheduling policies and resource management. Traditional HPC solution developers will appreciate the elegance of Microsoft’s latest platform technologies while those new to the parallel computing problem domain will want to consider Windows HPC based solutions

High Performance Computing for the Masses with Intel

Wenming Ye — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:33:00 GMT

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 denominator across most HPC deployments. In parallel, the continuing maturation of HPC ISV commercial business software, the refinement of operating system & cluster software, and the consistent availability of more computing power at lower cost have opened up the inherent performance advantages of HPC clusters to a much wider community of users. Please join Intel for an overview of the current HPC marketplace and the potential alternatives of utilizing High Performance Computing clusters for both increased productivity and competitive advantage.

Windows HPC Server Development, the WCF Application Model

Wenming Ye — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:31:00 GMT

Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces a new interactive programming model for High Performance Computing solutions. Learn how to host Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) components within a compute cluster and how to leverage the cluster in various service-oriented client application scenarios. An innovative departure from traditional clustered computing, the HPC+WCF Services model enables ease of solution development, deployment, and management. Early adopters include financial services enterprises with near real-time interactive compute requirements.

HPC in Life Insurance Modeling - Leveraging Milliman's MG-ALFA on the Cray CX1

Wenming Ye — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:19:00 GMT

MG-ALFA from Milliman is available on the new Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer and is fully integrated with the Windows HPC Server 2008. Join us for this informative webcast and learn about the new Cray CX1 system, get the latest information on the recent developments in version 6.7 of MG-ALFA and explain the benefits of MG-ALFA on the latest version of Windows HPC technology, Windows HPC server 2008. Topics covered will include: Introduction to the recently-introduced Cray CX1 supercomputer; Performance of MG-ALFA on Windows HPCS, Scaling performance for very large system counts running MG-ALFA on Windows HPCS, Technical requirements for the implementation of MG-ALFA on Windows HPCS, Enhancements to Windows HPCS over the prior version of this software, Windows Compute Cluster Server. The Webinar is of interest to anyone evaluating an implementation of the Principles based approach to Capital.

The Development of a Next Generation Networking Interface - Network Direct

Wenming Ye — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:48:00 GMT

Mellanox and Microsoft bring you an informative and informational webcast on Network Direct. The ability of scientists to access the right data and apply it the right way is critical for many scientific disciplines. "The life sciences with genomic and proteonomic data, it's an explosion of information that people around the world should be able to benefit from the results that other people are gathering together," Bill Gates, Supercomputing 2005. Three years after, Microsoft has introduced a new networking interface called Network Direct, which enables high performance applications not only to be able to execute faster and handle large information databases, but also to provide efficient parallelism with effective remote data management. In the future, Network Direct might be the common interface not only for MPI based application but also for sockets and file systems. The session will provide an overview of Network Direct development and its potential benefits, a discussion of the role of Windows for MPI applications, and industry case studies.

Improving Electronic System Design Productivity using Synopsys System Studio

Wenming Ye — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:42:00 GMT

Synopsys System Studio and Saber products are now available on Windows HPC Server 2008. Join us for this informative webcast and get the latest information on how System Studio further improves performance and signal processing design productivity by taking full advantage of Windows HPC Server 2008 as a stable, extensible environment on high-performance CPUs. Learn how Saber helps automotive and aerospace supply chains meet stringent reliability and safety requirements for mechatronic systems in harsh environments. System Studio is Synopsys' model-based algorithm design and analysis offering providing a unique dataflow simulation engine with the highest performance for exploring, verifying and optimizing digital signal processing algorithms. Saber is Synopsys' technology-leading mechatronic design and analysis software, advancing Robust Design and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies into today's automotive, aerospace, and commercial design.

Bringing speed and visibility to software builds using Windows high-performance clustering with Electric Cloud and Microsoft

Wenming Ye — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:27:00 GMT

Improving the speed of the software build/test/deploy cycle is one of the most effective ways of increasing developer productivity. In order to break the build bottleneck, all limitations to performance must be overcome: dependencies, accuracy, and infrastructure speed. ElectricAccelerator solves the problem of hidden and implicit dependencies, guaranteeing accuracy while enabling parallel execution, and Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 provides the most effective cluster infrastructure to support the ElectricAccelerator technology.

How to Develop Supercomputer Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:46 GMT

Learn about both traditional and new High Performance Computing (HPC) programming models enabled via Windows HPC Server 2008. Discover how the Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MPI) enables distributed parallel computing scenarios and how to host Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services within a highly scalable compute cluster.

Jeff Baxter
Sean Mortazavi
Sean Mortazavi is an architect at Microsoft in the HPC group focusing on Developer Tools. Prior to WHPC he was in the Visual Studio and MSR divisions where he worked on Microsoft's next generation of compilers, JITs and Static Analysis tools. Before Microsoft he was at Sun Microsystems where he led the compiler code generation & optimization groups.

HPC Basic Profile with Steven Newhouse (5/5) -- SOA Sessions

Wenming Ye — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:06:00 GMT

HPC Basic Profile Web Service or the HPCBP for short, is a web service, built using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provides access to some of HPCS 2008’s core job submission functionality.

Part 5 -- SOA Sessions

-Brief Description of the WCF Broker model
-HPCBP-SOA xml schema
-Controlling the SOA Session

HPC Basic Profile with Steven Newhouse (4/5) -- File Staging

Wenming Ye — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:01:00 GMT

HPC Basic Profile Web Service or the HPCBP for short, is a web service, built using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provides access to some of HPCS 2008’s core job submission functionality.

Part 4 -- Submitting a job with File Staging

-Users need to setup a place to store files for a job.
-Specify Download and Upload files are supported using the file staging extension of JDSL.
-May use the IIS's ftp server.
-Staging, cleaning up files before and after a job submission are allowed.