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The blog for the Big Compute team in Microsoft Azure, working on HPC & Batch services and technologies

Process Affinity and Windows HPC Server 2008 SP1

An issue came to our attention after Windows HPC Server 2008 shipped regarding the way we set...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 10/01/2009

Issue with HPC Event Logs with HPC Pack SP1

Some customers have reported issues with the HPC Job Scheduler's event logs after installing Service...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 09/18/2009

Getting Host(A) records added to Windows HPC Server 2008 Private network DNS

A common scenario is to have the Windows HPC Server 2008 Private Network DNS on the head node of the...

Author: FrankChism Date: 08/27/2009

Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Library - New Topics Published

The following new topics were published to the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Library: · Windows...

Author: HPC doc team Date: 07/16/2009

Dryad and DryadLINQ on HPC Server

Microsoft Research has an interesting project called Dryad which is investigating programming models...

Author: JVert Date: 07/15/2009

Warning: Not all InfiniBand HCAs have a PSID

If you read the documents posted by Mellanox about their new 2..0.5 build 4453 InfiniBand drivers...

Author: FrankChism Date: 07/04/2009

New Mellanox WinOF InfiniBand WHQLed Drivers: Driver Installation

Mellanox has released a new version of its WHQLed WinOF drivers. V2.0.5 build 4453 See:...

Author: FrankChism Date: 07/04/2009

HPC Server 2008 MPI Diagnostic Fails on Eager Message No Business Card Error

An HPC Server 2008 user reported that his cluster was up and running and that all nodes could ping...

Author: FrankChism Date: 06/29/2009

Overview of Charts and Reports in V2

Recently a customer asked me to create a document to briefly describe the charting and reporting...

Author: LeeGranthpc Date: 06/26/2009

2009 Summer Scripting Games

This might be of interest to HPC PowerShell users. --------------- PowerShellCommunity.org Joins...

Author: HPC doc team Date: 06/10/2009

MPI Cluster Debugger in Visual Studio2010 Beta1

If you ever write MPI program in Windows HPC cluster, you should be familiar with MPI Cluster...

Author: qingzhi Date: 06/02/2009

Submit job from SUA (Subsystem for Unix based Application)

SUA is a very nice tool for porting Unix/Linux application, but it can also be used to submit job....

Author: Thomas.varlet@MS Date: 05/06/2009

DNS Suffix vs. Active Directory Domain for HPC cluster (Part 2)

In an earlier post, I described an approach for resolving names when the connection specific DNS...

Author: Steve Roach Date: 04/22/2009

How to set environment variables on computes nodes

For ISV application you have to set some environments variables on the compute node.You can set this...

Author: Thomas.varlet@MS Date: 04/07/2009

Accessing an NFS Server from Windows HPC compute nodes

Because most HPC environments already have enterprise data stored on an NFS server, we often get...

Author: Steve Roach Date: 04/05/2009

Windows HPC WCF/SOA tracing

I was recently looking into a failure in a WCF client application that runs just fine with the...

Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009

Troubleshooting Windows HPC WCF/SOA Issues

HPC uses HPC sessions to support the service-oriented architecture (SOA) programming model based on...

Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009

Helpful tip for dealing with HPC Pack setup failures

I once ran into an issue while installing the HPC Pack on a machine and I was wondering where to go...

Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009

Authentication Failure error on Windows HPC caused by port conflict

I recently ran into an issue where all attempts to run any cluster command from the command line...

Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009

DNS Suffix vs. Active Directory Domain for HPC cluster

A few months ago, I was asked a question about how to assign a connection specific DNS Suffix to a...

Author: Steve Roach Date: 03/31/2009

How to tell if a .exe file is a 32-bit or 64-bit application using dumpbin

Goodfolk, One of my customers wanted to know if they had really built a 64-bit application for their...

Author: FrankChism Date: 03/26/2009

HPC Visual Studio Command Line Compilation from Powershell

I admit to an almost perverse fondness for command line environments. So I decided to jump onto...

Author: FrankChism Date: 03/06/2009

Condor Week and HPCS Microsoft Opens the Window to the Giant Bird

Every year in April the users and creators of the Condor Open source scheduling solution meet in...

Author: daved18 Date: 03/05/2009

a clusrun bug

We've had reports of a bug with clusrun, specifically that environment variables set using the /env...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 02/02/2009

Join the Customer Experience Improvement Program!

The HPC Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) was created to give you, the HPC customers...

Author: Lanlan Cong Date: 01/14/2009

a powershell problem

We've gotten reports of an installation glitch that makes it so that node management cmdlets won't...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 01/06/2009

How to connect to a HPC Server cluster from a PC not into the AD

To manage/monitor/use a cluster you don’t need to be logged on the head node, you just have to...

Author: Thomas.varlet@MS Date: 01/05/2009

Coming early November - New windowshpc.net web site!

What will change? https://windowshpc.net will be migrated from its existing Community Server platform...

Author: MichaelCole Date: 12/16/2008

7 Minute Job Scheduling Thrill-Ride

Shahrokh was nice enough to film and post a video of me walking through the HPC Job Scheduler and...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 11/26/2008

MSMPI tracing and Parallel Dijkstra

MSMPI Tracing Windows HPC Server 2008 (formerly known as Computer Cluster Server v2) includes all...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/11/2008

Creating Submission and Activation Filters

There were a lot of questions about how to use Activation and Submission Filters to help customize...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 11/10/2008

Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model Port to Windows

The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) project is a multi-year/multi-institution collaboration to...

Author: MichaelCole Date: 10/30/2008

Integrating Windows HPC Server 2008 with Linux

We find many of our Windows HPC Server 2008 deployments are going into environments where there are...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/02/2008

Why choose a single tool?

Last week at the Valuation Actuaries Symposium I was able to attend a session hosted by Milliman at...

Author: daved18 Date: 09/27/2008

Clusrunning with Windows HPC Server 2008

One of our most popular features in the Compute Cluster Pack was clusrun (known to you GUI users as...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 09/17/2008

MPI Process Placement with Windows HPC Server 2008

We get an awful lot of questions about how to go about getting the desired process placement across...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 09/16/2008

HPCv2 Powershell and ActiveDirectory

One of the big challenges as we get close to shipping Windows HPC Server is closing the door on...

Author: JVert Date: 08/02/2008

How to Submit a Job

I was asked today where there was a quick explanation of how to submit a job from the command line,...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 07/31/2008

HPCv2RC1: Nodes imaged successfully, but show “Provisioning Failed”

I just installed the brand new RC1 candidate on my head node. I provisioned all 23 nodes of my...

Author: DougLi Date: 06/30/2008

Job Template White Paper is Now Available

We've posted a white paper on how Job Templates can help you manage your cluster. You can check out...

Author: Barndawgie Date: 06/19/2008

Stochastic for Health and Property/Casualty

Stochastic methods have been well integrated into the Life insurance segment of the industry. From...

Author: daved18 Date: 06/12/2008

Converting an iterative sequential application to data parallel using CMD scripts

I have an application that is based on a sequential iterative call from a command script. It is a...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/05/2008

Windows HPC @ TechEd 2008

Heading to TechEd 2008? Discover some of the exciting technologies the HPC Server 2008 team is...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 05/31/2008

See You in LA on May 28-30

The Society Of Actuaries annual health Spring meeting is scheduled for the Hyatt Regency in Century...

Author: daved18 Date: 05/22/2008

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