There were a lot of questions about how to use Activation and Submission Filters to help customize queue managmeent and do things like license-aware scheduling. That, on top of some changes made in a QFE , led us to do an updated doc on using filters...

Recently a customer asked me to create a document to briefly describe the charting and reporting functionality in V2. After completing the document I felt that it would make a good blog posting to share with the HPC community. The document is attached...

(On behalf of Christina Carter ) Did you know you can use the familiar C shell and Korn shell under SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications) to call our PowerShell commands? If you have Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista...

The HPC Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) was created to give you, the HPC customers the ability to contribute to the design and development of the HPC product. CEIP collects information about how you use HPC product and we, the product team...

We've published some new topics to the tech net library and the download center recently. Here are the links: · Replacing a Head Node Configured in a Failover Cluster in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 · V3 glossary · New developer...

This might be of interest to HPC PowerShell users. --------------- PowerShellCommunity.org Joins Forces with Microsoft Scripting Guys to Host 2009 Summer Scripting Games LOS ANGELES – At Microsoft TechEd 2009, PowerShellCommunity.org...

What will change? Http://windowshpc.net will be migrated from its existing Community Server platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Existing users and community members will need to re-register using Microsoft Live ID . We are planning...

If you want to setup and deploy a cluster with Windows HPC Server 2008 April CTP build on a single laptop or desktop, or if you want to build a bigger cluster with more nodes on a few powerful machines, here is a step-by-step document to help you achieve...

If for some reason you want to uninstall the HPC Pack 2008 R2 software from multiple computers, read on... HPC Pack 2008 R2 is made up of several different components (for example the Client Utilities and the MPI Redistributable) that get installed...

Chronicles of a Cluster Troubleshooter Volume One #1 Date: October 5, 2007 Issue: Performance of application, Eclipse, on Windows Compute Cluster Server V1 is below that of the same application run on the same hardware on Linux. Hardware Platform...

One of our most popular features in the Compute Cluster Pack was clusrun (known to you GUI users as “Remote Command Execution”), which allowed you to run a command line command across a set of cluster nodes in parallel, with their output piped back to...

For everyone who loves the Excel functionality in the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Enterprise version, we have written up some best practices for using the HPC macros . Then we have released an update to the Net work Troubleshooting Report portion of the...

We've had reports of a bug with clusrun, specifically that environment variables set using the /env flag to clusrun may or may not get propagated to compute nodes when the clusrun job is run.  For example, doing "clusrun /env:test=ItWorked set"...

Normally, deploying applications to a large number of Windows machines requires substantial planning and infrastructure. Microsoft ships enterprise-quality solutions for handling software deployments, such as Systems Management Server ( SMS ). It is also...

When you have a cluster with a few hundred nodes, in a network environment that's often beyond your control, running applications that you didn't write, used by users who are not always predictable, you are expected to see some errors most of the time...

A number of large VA providers have active Equity Hedge programs in place for risk management against adverse effects of stock market fluctuations. after the last 18 months of craziness in the stock market, maybe this is the perfect time to examine the...

posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:07 PM by elantz | 0 Comments MS-MPI is identical to MPICH2 in most respects but one area of difference is MS-MPI’s secure execution and interaction with the CCS Job Scheduler. Hopefully, this post will shed some light...

Earlier this year we announced the 'Technical Computing' initiative at Microsoft, and set up a site at ModelingTheWorld.com . Today we have a launch event in New York, with a keynote presentation from Bill Hilf, the General Manager of the Microsoft...

With multiple tasks running on an HPC cluster, often, many tasks work with a shared data set. For example, a stock risk analysis program can run a large number of simulations against a set of historical stock market data. In this example, each SOA request...

I once ran into an issue while installing the HPC Pack on a machine and I was wondering where to go to find more information about the setup failure preferably a log of some sort to see the reason for the failure. Here is a tip that helped. The HPC...

'Tool Pack' is the name we use to release various utilities written by the dev team, outside of our main HPC Pack product. Today we are adding one new tool: Network Troubleshooting Report The Network Troubleshooting Report contains a set of diagnostic...

We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 (RC 1) of the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 & Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 solution is now available. We've improved the stability and performance in this release, as well as made enhancements to features...

I just installed the brand new RC1 candidate on my head node. I provisioned all 23 nodes of my cluster at once, using the Default compute node template. While going through the “Create a node template” wizard in the To-Do list, I selected the option ...

Job Templates are one of the most whiz-bang new features in HPC Server 2008, but we've gotten a lot of feedback from the community that you don't really know what they're for or how to use them. So I figured a quick post here might help solve that problem...

Do you want to access the HPCS 2008 Job Scheduler from other environments such as Java, Linux, etc? Or build Job Submission tools around a standard web services based interface? Well, in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) released this week...