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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...

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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...

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...

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...

The symbols for MSMPI v1 RTM and SP1 are available on the Microsoft public symbols server @ http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols . You can access the symbols from the debugger (and other tools) using the symbols server symbols path e.g., srv...

We are pleased to introduce a new blog category to accomodate all questions, discussions and tips around Windows Server 2008 and Compute Cluster Server performance. This blog is owned by Xavier Pillons.

Hi, I’m Doug and I design & run production Windows Compute Cluster Server clusters for the HPC team at Microsoft. I often get asked “what hardware configuration should I choose for my cluster?” The stock answer is: “it depends.” WCCS will run just...

Consider registering for a 1 day Windows HPC Server 2008 immersion event. Designed to introduce new features and tools, attendees will obtain a JumpStart in their preparation for deployment and development of Windows HPC solutions. World-wide dates and...

Hello to everybody in the WindowsHPC community! We have finalized the first phase of development for this site and are going live on November 15 at 10:00 AM PST. Thank you for your continued support and interest in WindowsHPC. Michael...

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...

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...

The following posts are exact copies of entries in the same titled blog on the previous Windowshpc portal site. I added the author's name in the beginning of each entry and edited the posting dates to reflect the original date of the entry. Michael Cole...

Just a quick note. When you uninstall CCP V1, the performance counter categories "Compute Cluster" and "Compute Nodes" aren't removed. (This is a bug which will be resolved in V2.) This means that if for some reason these entries get corrupted, they can...

posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:11 PM by DennisCr | The University of Southampton is the latest university to join the UK National Grid Service with affiliate status. The Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing at the University...

posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:39 AM by saptak | 0 Comments Actually, the cluster is a dual boot Linux/CCS cluster, which makes it even more interesting than the headline. The machine is reported to have 1,151 Dell servers with dual-socket Barcelonas...

http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2007/07/22/interview-with-ryan-waite/ In this interview, Ryan Waite, Group Program Manager for High-Performance Computing at Microsoft talks about: o Microsoft’s entry into the High Performance Computing area. o...

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 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...

posted Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:40 PM by ktakeda | 0 Comments Thanks to the 70+ participants for making the world's first CCS User Group meeting at Microsoft UK HQ such a success. An amazing 95% turnout, which is unheard of for such a gathering,...

I've been at Microsoft since 1996 in various roles on product teams and in consulting. These days I work pretty much full time assisting HPC ISVs who are trying to get their applications onto Windows Compute Cluster Server. Recently, I've also begun to...

Because ISVs have to support solutions from multiple vendors, I frequently get asked: "How do I know if I am running on CCS?" It's a good question. Also, as future versions of the product get shipped, it will be increasingly important to be able to tell...