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Announcing the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program

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I am pleased to announce the start of the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program!

The 4th major version of our HPC software line following the Compute Cluster Pack, HPC Pack 2008, and HPC Pack 2008 R2 releases, the HPC Pack 2012 release brings a batch of new functionality and support for new software.

  • Windows Server 2012 (including 'Server Core'), the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and Windows 8 are all now supported
  • A single version of HPC Pack 2012 now includes all the functionality that used to be split across the HPC Pack 2008 Express, Enteprise, Workstations and Cycle Harvesting editions
  • HPC Pack now supports extending your enterprise network to Windows Azure via 'Project Brooklyn'
  • MS-MPI has a new 'message compression' feature to reduce the time spent waiting on communications to complete
  • The job scheduler now allows for dependencies between jobs (in addition to the task dependencies that already existed) to better integrate with your work flow
  • Windows Azure nodes can be set to automatically mount a VHD, which could contain some static data or application code, to make using HPC Pack's 'burst' functionality even easier
  • and more... A more complete list of new functionality is available once you join the beta :)

 

Sign up for the beta program by going to the Microsoft HPC Connect beta site, logging in with your Windows Live ID and filling out a quick survey. (If this is your first Connect-based beta program you'll also need to complete a short set of 'profile' questions.)

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Raffig, that isn't exactly what the HPC Pack does. In an HPC cluster the computers continue to be discrete machines, but they are able to work together if you have applications written to take advantage of a cluster (such as an MPI-based applicationtechnet.microsoft.com/.../cc720120(v=ws.10).aspx) or if you have a batch of operations that you can do in parallel. For additional information check out the Windows HPC TechCenter at technet.microsoft.com/.../cc453771.aspx and there are links to our discussion forums where you can discuss your scenario in more detail.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The HPC Pack 2012 is now released since 7 days see: blogs.technet.com/.../announcing-the-release-of-hpc-pack-2012.aspx

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Hi Don, I am interested in participating in the HPC beta, however, I would to know in advanced if HPC would support the following distributed computing scenario;  In essence if I have 3 computers, each with 2 processors (dual proc), 8 GB Ram and with 1 TB HD, I would like to have computer 1 to act as the main computer, computer 2 and 3 to act as resources, thus, from the OS and SQL server perspective,  the total hardware resources should be seen as a monolith (a single system) made of: 6 processors, 24 GB Ram, 3 TB. Is the above specific scenario supported by HPC?

  • Anonymous
    December 20, 2012
    Do we have an approximate GA date announced date?