Yesterday and the day before Microsoft hosted two very interesting webcasts concerning High Performance Computing. The first one is titled "Turbo-Charging Time Critical Applications with ASPEED Software and HPC on Windows Platform". I found this one particularly interesting because it offers important insight into what you can do with your application if the application code "understands" to leverage multiple processors and cores or multiple system in a compute clustered environment. The interesting piece starts about 10minutes into the session. You can find the recorded webcast here.
Yesterday another very good webcast about HPC and InfiniBand, "Maximizing Cluster Performance and Productivity with InfiniBand and Windows HPC Server 2008". From the description: "... HPC applications require the highest throughput, lowest possible latency and maximum CPU utilization for highest productivity. The usage of clustered commodity servers offers tremendous price/performance benefits, unparalleled flexibility in deployment, and reduced long-term maintenance. The InfiniBand interconnect architecture is the only industry standard technology that advances I/O connectivity for HPC clusters and provides the key elements for the various HPC applications". This webcast recording has not been posted yet but I will send an update as soon as the webcast has been posted.
The "InfiniBand webcast" has been posted and is now available for watching here.