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Our first Beta release is now available! You can read the full press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/nov09/11-16SC09PR.mspx if you're in to reading that kind of thing ;) Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 delivers productivity, performance
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Today Clustercorp introduced their new hybrid solution, ROCKS(R)+HYBRID, for supporting Windows HPC Server and Linux on the same hardware. They've pulled together a Rocks-based deployment solution that is consistent with both Windows HPC Server 2008 and
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I find a lot of people are starting to build demonstration clusters on a small scale with some sort of minimal ‘enterprise’ network. In my case the enterprise network is my home router and the private network is a little 5 port GigE switch. To make it
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An issue came to our attention after Windows HPC Server 2008 shipped regarding the way we set affinity on the processes within a job. There are actually two places where we set affinity: 1. The Node Manager (the service on each node responsible for starting
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This post provides a workaround for customers who have experienced issues with their Windows HPC Server event logs after updating to SP1.
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A common scenario is to have the Windows HPC Server 2008 Private Network DNS on the head node of the cluster. Because the HPC Pack normally manages name resolution for the private network via Hosts files it propagates to all nodes, we do not normally
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The following new topics were published to the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Library : · Windows HPC Server 2008 Service Pack 1 Release Notes ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221139(WS.10).aspx ) · Security in Windows HPC Server 2008
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Microsoft Research has an interesting project called Dryad which is investigating programming models for distributed data-parallel problems. If you've heard some of the hype around map/reduce programming or the Hadoop framework, you might be familiar
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If you read the documents posted by Mellanox about their new 2..0.5 build 4453 InfiniBand drivers you may have noticed the advice to update your firmware. If so, you will need to discover your PSID. This should be pretty straight forward, just install
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Mellanox has released a new version of its WHQLed WinOF drivers. V2.0.5 build 4453 See: http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=products_dyn&product_family=32&menu_section=34 Click the download tab in the middle of the page and select the
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An HPC Server 2008 user reported that his cluster was up and running and that all nodes could ping each other over all networks but the built-in MPI diagnostic was failing with an uninformative message "Failed To Run". He had a topology number three with
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Recently a customer asked me to create a document to briefly describe the charting and reporting functionality in V2. After completing the document I felt that it would make a good blog posting to share with the HPC community. The document is attached
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This might be of interest to HPC PowerShell users. --------------- PowerShellCommunity.org Joins Forces with Microsoft Scripting Guys to Host 2009 Summer Scripting Games LOS ANGELES – At Microsoft TechEd 2009, PowerShellCommunity.org, an online community
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If you ever write MPI program in Windows HPC cluster, you should be familiar with MPI Cluster Debugger in Visual Studio2005/2008. Also, you can find much resource online talking about it (such as blog , white paper ). Do you like to debug MPI program
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SUA is a very nice tool for porting Unix/Linux application, but it can also be used to submit job. You just have to set the path to the HPCS binary into your PATH variable : With BASH : export PATH=$PATH:"/dev/fs/C/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack/Bin"
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