November 2007 - News - Extended64.com

Windows HPC Cluster on a laptop

Wired? Useful? Be it as it may, in a recent post Phil describes how to set up a virtual cluster based on Windows HPC Server 2008 . He certainly knows what he's talking about. He evangelizes HPC for Microsoft. Also check out his first screencast talking...

Published Fri, Nov 16 2007 5:55 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC, Microsoft

Hafnium helps increasing performance of virtual environments

On Nov 11th Intel already announced a "Fundamental Advance in Transistor Design," extending Moore's Law and therefore computing performance. You find the full press announcement here . Why's it important in the context of virtualization...

Published Wed, Nov 14 2007 11:40 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Viridian, Virtual Server, Virtualization

Screencast on Windows HPC Server 2008

My teammate Giovanni just posted a screencast highlighting the key new features of Windows HPC Server 2008 aka. CCS V2. Also, check out his blog post .

Published Wed, Nov 14 2007 8:00 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC, CCS, IT Pro

Windows HPC Ecosystem

What's a platform worth without an ecosystem? Microsoft is working very closely with industry partners to port HPC solutions over to also support the Windows HPC platform. Recently four major players announced their support for Windows Compute Cluster...

Published Wed, Nov 14 2007 5:19 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC, CCS

Technet Edge

These guys are definitely on a mission. Only a few after launch, look at the amount of content they have already posted. A long awaited community for IT professionals.

Published Wed, Nov 14 2007 4:58 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: IT Pro

Beta 1 of Windows HPC Server 2008 available

Today we announced the public availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 aka. CCS V2. While Windows HPC Server 2008 obviously addresses the HPC market, the Microsoft efforts in high performance computing go way beyond pure HPC. The second half of the official...

Published Wed, Nov 14 2007 4:52 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC, Parallel Computing

AMD announces Core Math Library 4.0

From the press announcement : ACML is a set of numerical routines tuned specifically for AMD64 processors designed to increase support for linear programming, an optimizing technique for mathematically intensive code, in multi-core processing environments...

Published Tue, Nov 13 2007 4:10 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Parallel Computing

Next HPC training in Redmond is focusing on V2

Windows HPC Server 2008 (aka. "V2") comes with a boatload of new features. More than worth an in-depth training. This post is meant to inform you about a rare opportunity to learn about Windows HPC Server 2008 from a developer and an IT professional...

Published Tue, Nov 13 2007 3:58 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: HPC

Microsoft Hypervisor only on 64-bit

Looks like there is some confusion about our Hyper-V product. The Microsoft Hypervisor is called Hyper-V (as announced today). It will only be available for 64-bit SKUs of Windows Server 2008. Also the Hyper-V standalone SKU is only available for 64-bit...

Published Mon, Nov 12 2007 11:59 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft, Virtualization, 64-bit

Hypervisors are hip these days

BIOS vendors , OS providers and now database companies , everyone does his own Hypervisor these days. Interesting to watch how this game works out over the next months and year.

Published Mon, Nov 12 2007 11:39 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Virtualization

Virtualization update

With the keynote at IT Forum still going on, the press announcements accompanying the announcements made earlier in the keynote are out: Quote Sheet: Industry Partners Support Microsoft Hyper-V Server New Microsoft System Center Offerings Extend Management...

Published Mon, Nov 12 2007 8:16 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft, Virtualization

One of the largest Virtualization conferences

One of the largest Virtualization conferences of the industry seems to happen this week in Barcelona, Spain. Microsoft Teched IT Forum . Obviously not a pure virtualization conference but the Microsoft technical event for IT professionals. But if you...

Published Mon, Nov 12 2007 5:26 AM by VolkerW's WebLog

Filed under: Microsoft, Viridian, Virtual Server, Virtualization, SoftGrid

How to: Add 64-bit support to .vcproj files

Have you found a great sample in the Windows SDK but wish it could target 64-bit platforms? Not all of our samples have 64-bit support, but it’s quick and easy to configure the sample yourself using the project configurations available in the Visual Studio...

Published Thu, Nov 01 2007 11:00 PM by Search results matching tag 'x64'

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