It's coming! Be prepared, for HPC will be on it :-)! Stay tuned.  

We are kicking off our Compute Cluster v2 training in Munich, Germany, on November 19th-20th. The event is open to European partners and customers with previous experience of HPC. We will concentrate on CCS v2 features and provide hands-on labs on those...

Did you think that High Performance Computing was boring? Well, think again: we spent most of our time last week on a videogame :-) At our last HPC Lab we had CCP Games, maker (and hoster) of Eve-Online (http://www.eve-online.com/), a massive multi-player...

When you set up a Microsoft compute cluster, you have a choice of five supported network topologies: 1. All nodes on public network only 2. All nodes on public and private network 3. Compute nodes isolated on private network 4. All nodes on public, private...

iWarp (aka RDMA support, TCP offload and kernel bypass on Ethernet) will be for some a viable alternative to Infiniband as a cluster link, especially on the new 10 GbE adapters. Microsoft's MPI will make use of it, as long as a Winsock direct provider...

So, you've installed your infiniband cards, but got limited performance improvement for your MSMPI application. Before you look at the code again, you may want to have a look at whether the winsock direct providers were installed as well. In some cases...

It's OUT!!! ... and we have announced that we shall support VMWare, Xen in a future release. I cannot believe it! :-) Check out http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2007/09/06/system-center-virtual-machine-manager-huge-announcements.aspx

So, here are a few hints for those willing to try infiniband on Windows: Install Server 2003 SP2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=08fec2f5-6e3b-4e0d-9314-646414d0a421&displaylang=en Install Server 2003 SP2! Did I mention 2003...

Low-latency links are important for message-passing (MPI) applications. Typically several instances of the same MPI process will run on different nodes and depend on data passed from other nodes to complete their computation. Latency is therefore one...

Yet another common scenario: you want to avoid using RIS and have other applications that deploy a "golden image" of the operating system. All you need is a programmatic way of installing compute cluster pack. Well, I use this script - for which I claim...

I found a good article by John McRae on deploying Compute Cluster with Windows Deployment Service here. Although we shipped WDS in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and we use in compute cluster pack SP1, we use it in legacy (RIS) mode. This article describes...

So, imagine this scenario: you have a rack full of servers that hum along at 20% of capacity, performing "mundane" tasks. Wouldn't it be nice to harness at least part of that remaining computing power for your batch calculations? Wouldn't it be nice to...

Note that Excel 2007 is able to use multiple threads to parallelize calculations on the workstation. Previous versions were not. When you hit “recalculate”, Excel will identify independent areas in your spreadsheet and allocate computations in those to...

The scheduler is the core of a high-performance computing cluster: -           It allocates computing resources to the jobs that are submitted to the cluster. -           It maintains the status of those jobs to ensure orderly completion or termination...

So, you have the latest multi-core, multi GHz, multi-processor, multi-everything laptop. That is a high-performance computer, right? Well, almost: High Performance Computing is a branch of computer science that studies systems designs and programming...