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I have received a few questions about upgrades from the evaluation version that you can download from microsoft.com/hpc to a full version. The good news is that the evaluation version is fully functional, so you won't need a complete re-installation.
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Thomas Varlet, of Microsoft France, and Dr. Patrice Calegari, of BULL SAS, have written an excellent paper on how to build hybrid clusters, i.e. clusters where 2 or more operating systems can be run at the same time. It is recommended reading, in my opinion,
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After I published a document about the installation of Mellanox Infiniband on Server 2008, I have received some good feedback that deserves sharing. Note that: The WinIB 1.4 beta available for download today on Mellanox's web site does not work with the
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Hello again, I'll be doing a series of webcasts soon, hopefully on the feature-complete beta 2 of HPC Server 2008. They will be mostly demonstrations, with a few slides for those concepts that are not evident in the software. Here is the schedule (all
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One would assume that Infiniband on Windows is just going to be as easy as any other plug and play device installation. Well, in some cases it is. When you have some old cards and an old switch, no documentation, both not supported any longer and in an
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My introductory demo / webcast on HPC Server 2008 beta 1 has been recorded. It can now be viewed here . I have received feedback from several people about it, requesting instructions to build the virtual machines I used and to repeat the demos. Hence,
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The software previously known as Compute Cluster Server v2 is now available in beta 1 on http://connect.microsoft.com HPC Server 2008 contains some pretty significant innovations. I'll summarize them here and then produce some more detailed entries on
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