Run Batch Workload on a Mixed Infrastructure (Windows Azure Worker Nodes & On-Premise HPC Server 2008 R2 Compute Nodes)

re: Run Batch Workload on a Mixed Infrastructure (Windows Azure Worker Nodes & On-Premise HPC Server 2008 R2 Compute Nodes)

Josh Reuben — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:56:27 GMT

In SP2 beta, you can enable Azure Connect with your Azure Nodes. With Azure Connect, you can enable connectivity between Azure Nodes and on-premises endpoints that have the Azure Connect agent installed. This can help provide access from Azure Nodes to UNC file shares and license servers on-premises. You can use the Remote Desktop functionality to install the Azure Connect agent on your Azure nodes, and associate the Azure nodes with an on-premise group via the Azure portal.

re: Run Batch Workload on a Mixed Infrastructure (Windows Azure Worker Nodes & On-Premise HPC Server 2008 R2 Compute Nodes)

Ido Flatow — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:17:42 GMT

Regarding hpcsync, the command should be written as:

clusrun /nodegroup:AzureWorkerNodesGroupName hpcsync

(AzureWorkerNodesGroupName should be replaced with the name of the azure nodes group)

re: Run Batch Workload on a Mixed Infrastructure (Windows Azure Worker Nodes & On-Premise HPC Server 2008 R2 Compute Nodes)

Richard Vijay — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:37:26 GMT

Thanks, good one. From operations point of view, may need a native GUI tool within 2008 HPC to manage burst limit transfer, parameters for this transfer,logging and errors along with support for Azure transfer back to cluster env . May require USA on Azure, Sandbox with development and testing for HPC compilers!! .. Well guess worth loggin in our connect too