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...

posted Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:15 PM by NileshL | 1 Comments OK here is a template for Microsoft Visual Studio app development for Microsoft Windows CCS that DennisCr, PhilPen and CaClark helped create and refine. This template makes it easy for...

posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 2:47 PM by NileshL | 0 Comments We have seen this question come up many times...I recall Ming Xu has already shed light on this in another post in another newsgroup but I think this post will make a bit easier for...

posted Monday, May 29, 2006 6:23 PM by NileshL | 0 Comments Just saw Dennis' post where Dennis points to some commercial applications for Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. I attended ANSYS user conference a few weeks ago in Pittsburgh...

posted Sunday, May 28, 2006 11:52 PM by NileshL | 1 Comments Just finished installing another brand new cluster running the release candidate binaries of CCS I downloaded via links through http://www.microsoft.com/hpc So, the next logical step that...

posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:29 PM by DennisCr | 0 Comments Hi there...I thought that we should kick off the application blog with a good list of apps! The list also includes tools and drivers. This list was previously found on the beta web site...

The following posts are exact copies of Calvin's entries on the previous Windowshpc portal site. I edited the posting dates to reflect the original date of the entry. Michael Cole Project Manager/Site Administrator

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...

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...

We've gotten reports of an installation glitch that makes it so that node management cmdlets won't work when run from a remote client (they'll work just fine run on the headnode) due to a registry key that doesn't always get set up correctly. Fortunately...

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...

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...

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"...

In my last post I posed the question "Does Hedging really Work". Since that time I've been doing some research for an article in Windows in Financial Services and received the following quote From Normal 0 ...

Every year in April the users and creators of the Condor Open source scheduling solution meet in Madison WI, for Condor Week. In the past my employer, Microsoft, has strongly encouraged the implementation of Condor on Windows. When we introduced our own...

I admit to an almost perverse fondness for command line environments. So I decided to jump onto PowerShell as my default command line environment because its way more cool than the cmd shell and even a nerd with a penchant for undead languages sometimes...