With the introduction of SP1 of HPC Server 2008 R2 it is possible to run workload on Windows Azure. If you want to be able to off-burst your batch application (= extending the infrastructure from classic on-premise servers to cloud based Azure worker nodes) you need to set specific environment variables...

Activation Filters are used to provide the administrator of a Windows HPC cluster with a mechanism to verify and modify jobs before they are run. For example, a Windows HPC Server 2008 Activation Filter receives the job xml which might contain license requests. The filter could parse the xml, find the...