The Microsoft HPC & Batch Team Blog
The blog for the Big Compute team in Microsoft Azure, working on HPC & Batch services and technologies
Process Affinity and Windows HPC Server 2008 SP1
An issue came to our attention after Windows HPC Server 2008 shipped regarding the way we set...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 10/01/2009
Issue with HPC Event Logs with HPC Pack SP1
Some customers have reported issues with the HPC Job Scheduler's event logs after installing Service...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 09/18/2009
Getting Host(A) records added to Windows HPC Server 2008 Private network DNS
A common scenario is to have the Windows HPC Server 2008 Private Network DNS on the head node of the...
Author: FrankChism Date: 08/27/2009
Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Library - New Topics Published
The following new topics were published to the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Library: · Windows...
Author: HPC doc team Date: 07/16/2009
Dryad and DryadLINQ on HPC Server
Microsoft Research has an interesting project called Dryad which is investigating programming models...
Author: JVert Date: 07/15/2009
Warning: Not all InfiniBand HCAs have a PSID
If you read the documents posted by Mellanox about their new 2..0.5 build 4453 InfiniBand drivers...
Author: FrankChism Date: 07/04/2009
New Mellanox WinOF InfiniBand WHQLed Drivers: Driver Installation
Mellanox has released a new version of its WHQLed WinOF drivers. V2.0.5 build 4453 See:...
Author: FrankChism Date: 07/04/2009
HPC Server 2008 MPI Diagnostic Fails on Eager Message No Business Card Error
An HPC Server 2008 user reported that his cluster was up and running and that all nodes could ping...
Author: FrankChism Date: 06/29/2009
Overview of Charts and Reports in V2
Recently a customer asked me to create a document to briefly describe the charting and reporting...
Author: LeeGranthpc Date: 06/26/2009
2009 Summer Scripting Games
This might be of interest to HPC PowerShell users. --------------- PowerShellCommunity.org Joins...
Author: HPC doc team Date: 06/10/2009
MPI Cluster Debugger in Visual Studio2010 Beta1
If you ever write MPI program in Windows HPC cluster, you should be familiar with MPI Cluster...
Author: qingzhi Date: 06/02/2009
Submit job from SUA (Subsystem for Unix based Application)
SUA is a very nice tool for porting Unix/Linux application, but it can also be used to submit job....
Author: Thomas.varlet@MS Date: 05/06/2009
DNS Suffix vs. Active Directory Domain for HPC cluster (Part 2)
In an earlier post, I described an approach for resolving names when the connection specific DNS...
Author: Steve Roach Date: 04/22/2009
How to set environment variables on computes nodes
For ISV application you have to set some environments variables on the compute node.You can set this...
Author: Thomas.varlet@MS Date: 04/07/2009
Accessing an NFS Server from Windows HPC compute nodes
Because most HPC environments already have enterprise data stored on an NFS server, we often get...
Author: Steve Roach Date: 04/05/2009
Windows HPC WCF/SOA tracing
I was recently looking into a failure in a WCF client application that runs just fine with the...
Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009
Troubleshooting Windows HPC WCF/SOA Issues
HPC uses HPC sessions to support the service-oriented architecture (SOA) programming model based on...
Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009
Helpful tip for dealing with HPC Pack setup failures
I once ran into an issue while installing the HPC Pack on a machine and I was wondering where to go...
Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009
Authentication Failure error on Windows HPC caused by port conflict
I recently ran into an issue where all attempts to run any cluster command from the command line...
Author: ihimmar Date: 04/03/2009
DNS Suffix vs. Active Directory Domain for HPC cluster
A few months ago, I was asked a question about how to assign a connection specific DNS Suffix to a...
Author: Steve Roach Date: 03/31/2009
How to tell if a .exe file is a 32-bit or 64-bit application using dumpbin
Goodfolk, One of my customers wanted to know if they had really built a 64-bit application for their...
Author: FrankChism Date: 03/26/2009
HPC Visual Studio Command Line Compilation from Powershell
I admit to an almost perverse fondness for command line environments. So I decided to jump onto...
Author: FrankChism Date: 03/06/2009
Condor Week and HPCS Microsoft Opens the Window to the Giant Bird
Every year in April the users and creators of the Condor Open source scheduling solution meet in...
Author: daved18 Date: 03/05/2009
a clusrun bug
We've had reports of a bug with clusrun, specifically that environment variables set using the /env...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 02/02/2009
Join the Customer Experience Improvement Program!
The HPC Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) was created to give you, the HPC customers...
Author: Lanlan Cong Date: 01/14/2009
a powershell problem
We've gotten reports of an installation glitch that makes it so that node management cmdlets won't...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 01/06/2009
How to connect to a HPC Server cluster from a PC not into the AD
To manage/monitor/use a cluster you don’t need to be logged on the head node, you just have to...
Author: Thomas.varlet@MS Date: 01/05/2009
Coming early November - New windowshpc.net web site!
What will change? https://windowshpc.net will be migrated from its existing Community Server platform...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 12/16/2008
7 Minute Job Scheduling Thrill-Ride
Shahrokh was nice enough to film and post a video of me walking through the HPC Job Scheduler and...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 11/26/2008
MSMPI tracing and Parallel Dijkstra
MSMPI Tracing Windows HPC Server 2008 (formerly known as Computer Cluster Server v2) includes all...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/11/2008
Creating Submission and Activation Filters
There were a lot of questions about how to use Activation and Submission Filters to help customize...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 11/10/2008
Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model Port to Windows
The Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) project is a multi-year/multi-institution collaboration to...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 10/30/2008
Integrating Windows HPC Server 2008 with Linux
We find many of our Windows HPC Server 2008 deployments are going into environments where there are...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 10/02/2008
Why choose a single tool?
Last week at the Valuation Actuaries Symposium I was able to attend a session hosted by Milliman at...
Author: daved18 Date: 09/27/2008
Clusrunning with Windows HPC Server 2008
One of our most popular features in the Compute Cluster Pack was clusrun (known to you GUI users as...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 09/17/2008
MPI Process Placement with Windows HPC Server 2008
We get an awful lot of questions about how to go about getting the desired process placement across...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 09/16/2008
HPCv2 Powershell and ActiveDirectory
One of the big challenges as we get close to shipping Windows HPC Server is closing the door on...
Author: JVert Date: 08/02/2008
How to Submit a Job
I was asked today where there was a quick explanation of how to submit a job from the command line,...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 07/31/2008
HPCv2RC1: Nodes imaged successfully, but show “Provisioning Failed”
I just installed the brand new RC1 candidate on my head node. I provisioned all 23 nodes of my...
Author: DougLi Date: 06/30/2008
Job Template White Paper is Now Available
We've posted a white paper on how Job Templates can help you manage your cluster. You can check out...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 06/19/2008
Stochastic for Health and Property/Casualty
Stochastic methods have been well integrated into the Life insurance segment of the industry. From...
Author: daved18 Date: 06/12/2008
Converting an iterative sequential application to data parallel using CMD scripts
I have an application that is based on a sequential iterative call from a command script. It is a...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/05/2008
Windows HPC @ TechEd 2008
Heading to TechEd 2008? Discover some of the exciting technologies the HPC Server 2008 team is...
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 05/31/2008
See You in LA on May 28-30
The Society Of Actuaries annual health Spring meeting is scheduled for the Hyatt Regency in Century...
Author: daved18 Date: 05/22/2008