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Virtual HPC Cluster Deployment on Hyper-V

The blogs on windowshpc.net are picking up steam. Great to see more and more folks from the product group starting to post!

I missed one from a few days ago but wanted to bring it to your attention anyway. Yutong Sun posted a blog entry about using Hyper-V virtual machines to set up a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster. 

The document attached to the post (over 30 pages with plenty screenshots) outlines in detail how to get a cluster set up and running in virtual machines. It nicely ties together 2 cool "technologies", virtualization and HPC.

In case you have a spare Mac Mini, here's a bunch of videos about how to turn a Mac Mini into a Windows Server Virtualization host.

Read the complete post at http://blogs.msdn.com/volkerw/archive/2008/05/02/virtual-hpc-cluster-deployment-on-hyper-v.aspx


Posted May 02 2008, 01:34 PM by VolkerW's WebLog
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