(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...

Dear community, With Windows Server 2008 the product key management has changed over Windows Server 2003 and the default grace period to do the activation is 30 days. This is too few for an full evaluation of a cluster, but this period can be...

One of the big challenges as we get close to shipping Windows HPC Server is closing the door on product changes. Now that we have a lot of internal and external customers using the product, everybody generates lots of great ideas on how to improve it...

Are you looking for a convenient and familiar way to port your UNIX code to Windows for use on the CCS platform? There are a few ways to do this. I have just uploaded a document that describes one of those methods using a shell script in conjunction with...

We find many of our Windows HPC Server 2008 deployments are going into environments where there are existing Linux (and Linux HPC) solutions. It is possible to configure these two environments to achieve integrated authentication, file sharing and job...

In the past couple of years I've learned just enough about how computational modeling is used in Actuarial science to begin to understand the real possibilities. In a nutshell, I've found the big three applications are general capital model for purposes...

Stochastic methods have been well integrated into the Life insurance segment of the industry. From my naive perspective HEalth and to a lesser degree P&C have been unable to benefit from these methods due to a lack of commercial software that exploits...

On May 28th I made my first SOA presentation at the Spring Health Conference. I was one of three vendor representatives on a panel covering the Actuaries High Performance Computing Challenge. I thought I gave a reasonable presentation, but after the...

The Society Of Actuaries annual health Spring meeting is scheduled for the Hyatt Regency in Century City next week. I'll be presenting in Section 17 1:30 - 3:00 PM along with John Powers and Gordon Jackson. Stop by and introduce yourself. If you...

The Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS) has come a long way in building value for the Actuarial Community. After about a year of active communication a nice little ecosystem of modeling tools has begun to build around WCCS and Windows Ccmpute Cluster...

Safety in Numbers? Welcome to my first ever Blog entry, I’ve resisted entering the Blog-o-sphere up to now, but who will speak up for the actuarial users of Windows HPC tools if not me? My first Post title is pretty clearly a play on words...

Heading to TechEd 2008? Discover some of the exciting technologies the HPC Server 2008 team is working on. Developer Week Sessions INF301 Application Development for High Performance Computing on the Windows Platform, June 5, 10:15AM - 11:30AM,...

Applications Performance Improved with Snoop Filter Off on Intel 5000x Chipset 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...

When many HPC applications have to be used on a cluster, most of the time they are using the well know FlexLM license manager to provide floating licenses. The CCS Job scheduler doesn't do, by default, a license aware scheduling, but by extending it with...

Subscribe to the following sites, blogs, and forums for the latest information and user community observations: http://WindowsHPC.net This is where you're at now... The official, new, and evolving community site. Jump to the Microsoft HPC...

I have an application that is based on a sequential iterative call from a command script. It is a Monte Carlo simulation application is essentially easy to put in a data parallel format and deployed to run on CCS cluster easily. Desciption of the...

I want to install an application on a CCS cluster nodes using MSIEXEC. I use clusrun while have the package available on a share. i want the installation target to be at C:\Program Files\product name location on all nodes. clusrun hangs when I give...

The following article was the closest one I found when looking for scripting for CCS. I was told `new job ..` will return JOBID but not sure in what format!!- it is actually a string of 4 terms. Was not quite apparent from what was there on the example...

You'll want to review a recent MSDN forum entry regarding this feature now available with Windows HPC Server 2008 (currently in beta). Read more here .

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Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta1 introduces 3 new programmatic interfaces to the Compute Cluster Scheduler. This effectively changes client application deployment scenarios along with client installation dependencies. Please refer to my blog at http...

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...

We get an awful lot of questions about how to go about getting the desired process placement across nodes in an MPI job (just check our forums if you don’t believe me), so I thought I’d post here to shed some light on the things that are possible. ...