It’s not an easy job to write an HPC application with complex algorithms, but it’s even more difficult to troubleshoot the application. This tutorial is to introduce how to diagnose the SOA application. Get SOA logs In HPC Pack 2012...

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...

In tutorial II we discussed how to deal with a time-consuming service by employing a durable session. However, batch mode is not the only computation mode in the HPC world. Some computations can be finished within a few seconds to a few minutes. The end...

In the last blog post , we implemented a simple SOA client and service. However in most cases, the HPC algorithm is not as simple as adding two numbers. Some services are more complex and run for hours. For such services, the end user normally submits...

This series of blog posts introduces the SOA programming model for Microsoft HPC Pack 2012. This is the first blog post of the series and provides guidance to write your first SOA service and client. See the accompanying code sample to follow the steps...

If you are running service oriented architecture (SOA) services on an HPC Pack 2008 R2 cluster, the 2012 release of HPC Pack requires the SOA services to be compiled with .NET Framework 4 or a later version. If you have any SOA services compiled with...

Announcing the immediate availability of the next major version of Windows HPC software: HPC Pack 2012 The fourth 'major version' of the HPC software brings improved performance and reliability to the HPC platform, simplifies the installation experience...

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 have launched. The live keynote videos are over, but will be available for on-demand viewing tomorrow on http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com/vs2012vle/Home You can read about Visual Studio Express 2012 over on the VS team...

I am pleased to announce the start of the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program! The 4th major version of our HPC software line following the Compute Cluster Pack, HPC Pack 2008, and HPC Pack 2008 R2 releases, the HPC Pack 2012 release brings a batch of new functionality...

As part of the spring WIndows Azure release, I'm pleased to announce that the HPC team has also released a set of updates: Service Pack 4 for the HPC Pack 2008 R2 family of software Our first update to the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler development...

For our HPC partners and customers that use Windows Azure, you may have experienced problems on Feb 29th. Bill Laing, the VP for Server and Azure, made a blog post outlining the issue in a decent amount of detail. It is an interesting read over on...

I know there were a bunch of folks waiting on this, so I'm happy to say the REST API documentation for the HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP3 release is available. Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides access to the HPC Job Scheduler Service...

When working with our customers to adopt Windows HPC cluster, some of them asked for interop capability so that they can integrate legacy Linux or Java based application into Windows HPC infrastructure. After a major release (Windows HPC Server 2008 R2...

Once again I get the honor of announcing, on behalf of the Microsoft High Performance Computing team, our latest releases are available immediately! Our new Windows Azure HPC Scheduler development kit, and the third update to the HPC Pack 2008...

Microsoft's High Performance Computing team has just made our 'release candidate' for two products available: The HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 and the Windows Azure Scheduler SDK . The HPC Pack service pack is an update to the same Windows HPC cluster...

Come watch our development manager, Greg Burgess, give a talk on how HPC applications can be made to work in Windows Azure. Windows Azure is an ideal environment for deploying compute-intensive apps that take advantage of the scale-on-demand capability...

We've just published new guidance on how to do capacity planning and tuning for the database that runs your HPC Pack 2008 R2-based cluster. Visit Database Capacity Planning and Tuning in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and then let us know what you think...

When helping our customers troubleshoot HPC SOA applications and cluster infrastructure, we realized that SOA trace is a very powerful tool when physical or remote logon is not available to the cluster. (Which happens a lot given that HPC is always a...

We have released a new set of 'sample code' that uses some of the new features available in the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 release. You can download it from the SP2 SDK page: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id...

We’re pleased to announce the availability of LINQ to HPC Beta 2. LINQ to HPC enables a new class of data intensive applications for Windows HPC Server by providing a sophisticated distributed runtime and associated programming model for large...

The second service pack to the HPC Pack 2008 R2 software is now available! This update includes a number of great new features, including Enhanced Azure capabilities, such as adding Azure VM nodes to your cluster, creating Azure node configuration...

One of the HPC team’s “sister groups” is the Parallel Computing Platform team, which creates tools that allow developers to efficiently harness the power of multicore processors. We are pleased to say that they have recently announced...

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...

If you are only deploying a few new clusters across your network, then applying the latest HPC Pack service pack to each head node prior to deploying its compute nodes is a pretty simple workflow. You install your head node in your favorite way (either...

Hey HPC admins, since some of you are using iSCSI in your clusters here is some information that you may find interesting. It is copied from Jose Baretto's blog . Introduction For the last few years, I’ve been blogging about the Microsoft...