Phil's Blog
Phil Pennington @ MSFT
HealthVault + Your Web Service + Your Client Apps
Cloud hosted services such as HealthVault, Windows Azure, Office365, Dynamics Online, and others...
Date: 06/03/2013
HealthVault Library for Windows Store C#/XAML Sample
The HealthVault for Windows Store application is now among the most popular Windows Store...
Date: 05/25/2013
How to Configure a Windows Azure Virtual Machine File Server and use it from within Windows HPC Server Compute Jobs
Recall the following axiom from your CS101 class…? “To solve a problem, create...
Date: 08/30/2012
C++ AMP Course Now Available From Acceleware
I recently attended an excellent new course offered by Acceleware covering the C++ Accelerated...
Date: 06/27/2012
How to Configure a Startup Script for Windows Azure Nodes using Windows HPC Server Node Templates
Download the script files associated with this topic from here. Refer to the authoritative...
Date: 05/21/2012
Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK Now Available!
Easily Develop Distributed Parallel Computing Solutions for Windows Azure. A new optional extension...
Date: 11/15/2011
LINQ to HPC Beta2 Now Available
Note the recent release of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 with a list of new...
Date: 07/12/2011
Updated GAMESS for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
We recently completed a collaboration with the Quantum Theory Group at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State...
Date: 05/10/2011
Put a VM on Azure
Just expanding the reach of Giovanni’s excellent walk-thru on this topic, click here…
Date: 03/12/2011
Use Windows Azure for HPC Workloads
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (released in December, 2010) includes new functionality...
Date: 03/01/2011
Resources for Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate
The SP1 RC is now available for evaluation download. Please see the following associated...
Date: 11/26/2010
IE9 & WP7 Announcements
Two big product announcements in as many days! The IE9 beta is available for evaluation...
Date: 09/16/2010
September MSDN Magazine – Focus on Concurrency
Many of us are still awaiting the many-core machines we keep reading about. But, writing code for...
Date: 09/02/2010
New Book – Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET
The Microsoft Patterns & Practices team has announced completion of their latest publication...
Date: 09/02/2010
Experimenting with Data and Services
Like me, you may have missed the AzGroups.org Day of .NET event in Phoenix during the latter part of...
Date: 08/25/2010
Introducing LightSwitch and WebMatrix - New Visual Studio Tools
You'll want to check-out these two new tools that extend the functionality of Visual Studio and make...
Date: 08/04/2010
University Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) “Summer School”
The UPCRC at the University of Illinois is hosting it’s 2010 Summer School on Multicore Programming...
Date: 07/21/2010
Using PCP – Parallel.For() Overloads for Common Task Scheduling Scenarios
A common pattern in parallel computing scenarios is the task scheduling/execution scenario of...
Date: 06/21/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 Application Readiness
Customers tell us that the verified compatibility of their applications is the #1 factor driving...
Date: 06/02/2010
Phil @ Houston C# SIG
If you’re in Houston on May 17, please consider yourself welcome to join us for a presentation on...
Date: 05/12/2010
Using PCP - How to accomplish Reduction
A common operation in parallel code design involves accumulating, or “reducing”, results from a...
Date: 05/04/2010
New Windows Azure Reference Application Available
Learning Windows Azure development? You’ll want to see the new “Bid-Now” sample...
Date: 04/21/2010
2010 Scripting Games
The Scripting Guys are back! Every year, the Scripting Guys host something called the...
Date: 04/08/2010
New Parallel Computing Platform (PCP) Developer Resources
The Visual Studio Launch will open a new chapter for Developers writing Windows...
Date: 03/17/2010
New Windows Phone Training Kit and Developer Tools!
Today, Microsoft released the first Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit. The Kit included...
Date: 03/15/2010
Parallel Computing Platform Developer Lab
Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism, in collaboration with the Microsoft Parallel...
Date: 03/03/2010
Get Windows Server App-Fabric beta2 via the Web Platform Installer
AppFabric is a combination of the distributed caching features previously codenamed “Velocity” and...
Date: 03/01/2010
MPI Project Template for Visual Studio 2008/2010
This new Visual Studio Gallery template sets up a project that can be used as the starting point for...
Date: 02/23/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Arrives
Designing applications for “many-core” scale? You’ll want to consider the C++...
Date: 02/09/2010
Application Compatibility Resources for R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes changes to the kernel and user-mode API’s to support virtualization,...
Date: 01/26/2010
Windows Server 2008 R2 – Feature Components Poster
Please see this new interactive poster available online via Silverlight and SeaDragon...
Date: 01/14/2010
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy
The Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server (Internet Information Services, IIS 7.5) is built with a...
Date: 01/13/2010
Updated Concurrency Dev Center
Please see the next-generation “MSDN Concurrency Developer Center”. Lots of new content...
Date: 12/03/2009
Traveling to PDC’09? Take along new technical videos!
From the New R2 Learning Center on Channel9 Explore this significant Windows Server release via a...
Date: 11/13/2009
PDC’09 Session Recommendations
Monday (all-day workshops) - Patterns of Parallel Programming: A Tutorial on Fundamental Patterns...
Date: 11/12/2009
New R2 Developer Learning Center
Windows Server 2008 R2, “Not your average R2!” Explore this significant Windows Server release via a...
Date: 11/09/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Lab
December 8-10, 2009 Join from your office! This event is a 3-day remote-access "code-fest"...
Date: 11/08/2009
The Parallel Computing Platform @ PDC’09
Attending PDC’09? Envision building highly concurrent “many-core” applications using Visual...
Date: 11/02/2009
Got Cores? Get the Core Info Utility
Check-out the new SysInternals utility, CoreInfo, for discovery of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)...
Date: 10/28/2009
New Channel9 Learning Centers
Learning Centers are a new one-stop place to find demonstration videos, hands-on-labs, sample code,...
Date: 10/22/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Now Available
Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and...
Date: 10/19/2009
Windows 7 (+R2) Developer Boot Camp at PDC09
Windows 7 (x64) and Windows Server 2008 R2 share the same OS kernel. Learn more about...
Date: 09/23/2009
Top Developer Technologies of Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows® Server® 2008 R2 builds upon the exceptional legacy of Windows Server 2008. R2 is an...
Date: 08/19/2009
A Computing Platform That Scales
Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and...
Date: 08/17/2009