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Steven Newhouse and Wenming Ye have spent some time together producing a great series of technical webcasts on Windows HPC Server 2008. Here's the 5 (in words: five) sessions plus a tiny teaser to wet your appetite. Teaser Intro HPC Basic Profile SDK Submitting a Job File Staging SOA Sessions Find...
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A bunch of technology webcasts coming your way in September and October. A team of subject matter experts (SMEs) from across the company has put together 3 high value technical webcasts around high performance computing on the Windows platform. The sessions are about MPI , WCF and networking and performance...
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From their press announcement today: "RenderMan Pro Server 14.0 introduces significant performance enhancements including accelerated ray-tracing, faster processing of large polygon datasets, optimized hair performance, faster AOV's, and enhanced threading scalability. New core features that...
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Later this year Microsoft ships the second version of the Windows HPC Server SKU, Windows HPC Server 2008. This product is a real milestone product for Microsoft and – I certainly hope – for the industry as a whole. Tejas Karmarkar a HPC Solution Specialist at Microsoft : "Microsoft...
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First of all, no matter how much memory you put into your system, it ain't enough. And this is true for all or at least most of the operating systems. Earlier this week Mark Russinovich wrote a blog post about "Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory." Needless to say, it is another...
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On his Channel 9 show Phil asks a loaded question: " Are You Sane? Who's sane these days anyway? Ok, don't digress (again), Volker. Of course his question is not about the sanity of the reader but about a great tool to check the sanity of a Windows HPC cluster called uSane. If you are interested...
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Quietly over the past weeks the HPC Show on Channel9 has grown its content quite a bit. The product group and the evangelism team is working hard to make the features we ship with Windows HPC Server 2008 transparent for the target audience. The latest addition is a series of 4 screencasts covering the...
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Recently Giovanni finished his series of 4 screencasts about setting up Windows HPC Server 2008 for high availability. Since posting the first screencast back end of May the series has over 25,000 downloads/views. Learn from the expert how to cluster Windows HPC Server 2008 for high availability: HPC...
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Aleksey Savateyev, one of the Microsoft HPC architects in the platform evangelism team, just released a new white paper on performance tuning for applications on CCS 2003. You can find this and many other valuable resources on the Microsoft HPC community portal . Go to windowshpc.net to find out more...
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Giovanni is convinced that Windows HPC Server 2008 is now playing with the big boys. Find out why and what IB , Network Direct and 2 GB/sec have to do with it in his recent blog post. I thought the recent announcement was already proof enough or at least a good indication.
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Dr. Patrice Calegari , HPC Application Specialist, BULL S.A.S. and Thomas Varlet , HPC Technology Solution Professional from Microsoft just posted a great technical document covering "Dual-Boot and Virtualization with Windows HPC Server 2008 and Linux Bull Advanced Server for Xeon." The paper...
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Wenming - our newest team member on the HPC evangelism team in Redmond - just started his HPC blog on MSDN. You can read his Problogue here .
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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...
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Over at windowshpc.net Barndawgie (?) has written a great post about scheduling jobs for a Windows HPC cluster via templates. So called Job templates are by no means something new, so why even bother to blog about it? Well, turns out the product group has received a lot of questions about how to use...
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May is the month of HPC webcasts focusing on several aspects of Windows HPC Server 2008 and beyond. Please pay attention to these webcasts: 5/9/2008 08:00 AM : Windows HPC Server 2008: Management and Diagnostics in High-Performance Computing (Level 200), Giovanni Marchetti 5/23/2008 08:00 AM ...