My Thoughts ... : Windows Server

Windows HPC Server Debuts in Top 25 of World’s Top 500 Largest Supercomputers

Donnie Wilemon — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:45:15 GMT

For anyone who might question Microsoft’s maturation into a truly “enterprise ready” alternative to other high-cost providers, check out the video above and this quote …

“Our experience with Windows HPC Server 2008 has been impressive,” said Robert Pennington, deputy director of the NCSA. “Deploying it was much easier than we expected, and the performance results have surpassed our expectations. When we deployed Windows on our cluster, which has more than 1,000 nodes, we went from bare metal to running the LINPACK benchmark programs in just four hours. The performance of Windows HPC Server 2008 has yielded efficiencies that are among the highest we’ve seen for this class of machine.”

Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios & Networking

Donnie Wilemon — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:31:06 GMT

If you're even vaguely interested in server virtualization these days you've got to make some time to get up to speed on Microsoft's Hyper-V technology. It's making huge strides in a very short period of time and rattling the powers that be within the industry. Check out the link for a free video+slide+demo session from Microsoft TechEd to learn more - Microsoft Sr. Program Manager, Jeff Woolsey, does a great job reviewing the information and making it applicable. This is time very well spent over a lunch break or end of the day. Take a look !

Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta Already One of the World's 'Top 25' Fastest

Donnie Wilemon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:04:16 GMT

I was very pleased to see the continued progress we're making in the high-performance computing (HPC) market. Our Windows HPC Server 2008 BETA is already placing in the Top 25 as one of the world's fastest supercomputers (at #23) performing at the 68.5-teraflop (68.5 trillion floating point operations per second) level. It runs on commodity hardware and reported 78% application efficiency on almost 9,500 cores. The final release version of Windows HPC Server 2008 is set for general availability during the last week of June 2008.

Check out the product datasheet ... also a IT trade article on this achievement at eWeek.