Announcing the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program

re: Announcing the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program

tomtomMS — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:21:11 GMT

The HPC Pack 2012 is now released since 7 days see: blogs.technet.com/.../announcing-the-release-of-hpc-pack-2012.aspx

re: Announcing the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program

Alexandre Le Bouthillier — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:51:35 GMT

Do we have an approximate GA date announced date?

re: Announcing the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program

Don Pattee — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:46:34 GMT

Hi Raffig, that isn't exactly what the HPC Pack does. In an HPC cluster the computers continue to be discrete machines, but they are able to work together if you have applications written to take advantage of a cluster (such as an MPI-based application technet.microsoft.com/.../cc720120(v=ws.10).aspx) or if you have a batch of operations that you can do in parallel.

For additional information check out the Windows HPC TechCenter at technet.microsoft.com/.../cc453771.aspx and there are links to our discussion forums where you can discuss your scenario in more detail.

re: Announcing the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program

Raffig — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:10:26 GMT

Hi Don,

I am interested in participating in the HPC beta, however, I would to know in advanced if HPC would support the following distributed computing scenario; In essence if I have 3 computers, each with 2 processors (dual proc), 8 GB Ram and with 1 TB HD, I would like to have computer 1 to act as the main computer, computer 2 and 3 to act as resources, thus, from the OS and SQL server perspective, the total hardware resources should be seen as a monolith (a single system) made of: 6 processors, 24 GB Ram, 3 TB.

Is the above specific scenario supported by HPC?