So for a little while now I have been meaning to grab a few of the HPC stars and let you all see the people who make HPC happen in EMEA and Worldwide. This is the first of 2 videos initially to show you the stars behind the WCCS show!

Mike Pallot sat down with Travis Hatmaker, Worldwide SI Channel Development Lead and Bjorn Tromsdorf who is the EMEA HPC Product and Solution Manager to talk about what High Performance Computing is and why our partners should be interested in Compute Cluster Server.

Partner TV: Microsoft's High Performance Computing

Watch out for more to follow - there is another great one with Ryan Waite and Jeff Wierer to follow!

So having written this blog for a few months you try out all types of blogging tools to help make writing posts easier. So far I have used all the following:

• Blog r'Mail
• Community Server directly
• Live Writer all betas

The one I keep coming back to is Livewriter - not because it is ours but merely because it is the one that allows me to do the following simple and easily:

• Insert photos
• Tag posts
• Save drafts of posts
• Quickly add hyperlinks
• Quickly insert video (watch out for those posts to come!)

Now most of the blogging tools out there do all of the above - but the way in which LiveWriter allows you to 'just get on with what you need to' makes it the one for me to use. If you haven't tried it, there is a new beta 2.0 out today - click on the download link below to check it out:

 Enjoy!

Useful stuff for setting up stand alone environments as well as Platform LSF integration with WCCS:

· HPC Grid-Computing White Paper:  Integration between Platform LSF and Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003: This paper explains the benefits of integrating Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 with Platform Computing’s LSF™ grid-enabled solution, and describes the architecture and configuration of this integrated high-performance computing solution. The LSF-CCS Bridge was developed in partnership between Microsoft and Platform Computing, to provide a more flexible and integrated solution incorporating both technologies. The integrated LSF-CCS solution offers customers extended high-performance computing capabilities and allows IT professionals to allocate resources and schedule jobs in real time through a single management console, leveraging the performance and capacity of both cluster and data center environments. Read white paper

· Deploying a Stand-alone Windows Compute Cluster Server environment:  This white paper explains how to set up Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 as an isolated cluster outside the corporate Active Directory® infrastructure along with scenarios where this set-up might be required.   Read here.

Enjoy!

Click on the picture above and enjoy....least said the better....seriously cool technology with amazing potential....think I need a new dining able... :)

A very cool Webcast for anyone wanting to know how Microsoft IT does Search:

Well worth an hour of my time, thanks to Steve for the hat tip :-)