The Windows HPC Team Blog : Documentation

How to use C shell and Korn shell to manage a Windows HPC Server cluster?

Zhen Wei — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:43:00 GMT

Did you know you can use the familiar C shell and Korn shell under SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications) to call our PowerShell commands? If you have Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise editions, then you can install SUA and try it out.

Here are the steps:

1. Install SUA via Add/Remove Windows Components. See this post for how to do that on Vista, and see this one for Windows Server 2003 R2.

2. Here are a few commands you can use in C Shell (You need to substitute "headnode" with your head node name)

cd /dev/fs/C/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/
./powershell.exe -command get-hpcnode -scheduler headnode
alias nodelist ./powershell.exe -command get-hpcnode -scheduler headnode
nodelist
nodelist | grep Online

See this post on more info about how PowerShell and SUA work together. There's a comment in this blog also talks about using class UNIX commands in SUA. (Search for the "SUA" wording)

Learn About HPC Server 2008 Features

PhilPenn — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:54:00 GMT

Please see the new articles published on both TechNet Edge (for ITPro's) and Channel9 (for Developers).

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The_HPC_Show

http://edge.technet.com/

Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta1 - The Latest Information

PhilPenn — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:33:00 GMT

Subscribe to the following sites, blogs, and forums for the latest information and user community observations:

http://WindowsHPC.net

This is where you're at now... The official, new, and evolving community site. Jump to the Microsoft HPC forums from here.

http://Archives.WindowsHPC.net

This is the old community site and it's still in use. Many of us prefer a side-door entry to community property.

http://blogs.technet.com/gmarchetti

This guy is responsible for distributing Windows HPC information to ITPro's around the globe... and that's just his night-job.

http://blogs.msdn.com/philpenn

This guy is responsible for distributing Windows HPC information to Dev's around the globe... no one really knows what his day job entails.

http://Channel9.msdn.com, search for "HPC"

An attempt to reach all those Dev's with just 5 minutes available to learn something new...

http://Edge.TechNet.com, search for "HPC"

An attempt to reach all those ITPro's with just 5 minutes available to learn something new...

Happy Trails to You too Roy...