The new management features built into Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008 (successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2008) are the foundation of Microsoft's High Productivity Computing offer. Join us for a deep dive in monitoring and diagnostic tools, a review of the heatmap and template-based deployment. We also cover the new Windows PowerShell-based Windows HPC Server 2008 commandline and scripting interface, the basics of management shell, as well as the underlying design and key concepts.