The Microsoft HPC & Batch Team Blog
The blog for the Big Compute team in Microsoft Azure, working on HPC & Batch services and technologies
Making a Clean Sweep with Windows HPC Server 2008
Parameter Sweeps are one of the most common types of jobs that get run on HPC clusters, and we've...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 05/15/2008
Help Me Help You - What Modeling packages do you need?
The Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS) has come a long way in building value for the Actuarial...
Author: daved18 Date: 05/12/2008
Virtual HPC Cluster Deployment on Hyper-V
If you want to setup and deploy a cluster with Windows HPC Server 2008 April CTP build on a single...
Author: Yutong Sun_1 Date: 04/25/2008
HPC Basic Profile Web Service
Do you want to access the HPCS 2008 Job Scheduler from other environments such as Java, Linux, etc?...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 04/23/2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 April CTP Released
Please see the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of Windows HPC Server 2008 at the...
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 04/22/2008
How to use C shell and Korn shell to manage a Windows HPC Server cluster?
(On behalf of Christina Carter) Did you know you can use the familiar C shell and Korn shell under...
Author: Zhen WEI MSFT Date: 04/17/2008
How that Node/Socket/Core thing works
This week, I’d like to take some time to explain how a new feature, Multi Level Resource Allocation,...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 04/14/2008
Safety in Numbers
Safety in Numbers? Welcome to my first ever Blog entry, I’ve resisted entering the Blog-o-sphere up...
Author: daved18 Date: 04/11/2008
Submitting and Managing Jobs with Windows PowerShell
For me, one of the most exciting new features in Windows HPC Server 2008 is our Windows PowerShell...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 03/31/2008
Welcome to the Job Scheduling Blog!
Not to be outdone by some of the other parts of the Windows HPC Server product, we wanted to start a...
Author: Barndawgie Date: 03/31/2008
clusrun.vbs fix to handle name="value" parameters
I want to install an application on a CCS cluster nodes using MSIEXEC. I use clusrun while have the...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/07/2008
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) + HPC
You'll want to review a recent MSDN forum entry regarding this feature now available with Windows...
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 02/28/2008
Getting JOBID in a perl script
The following article was the closest one I found when looking for scripting for CCS. I was told...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 02/06/2008
How to run Linpack on Windows Server 2008
I've just posted an How to guide explaining how to compute HPL input parameters and run linpack on...
Author: Xpillon Date: 02/02/2008
Note to the following University of Tennessee posts
The following posts are exact copies of entries to the University of Tennessee Blog on the previous...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 01/18/2008
Note to the following entries
The following posts are exact copies of entries to the Applications Blog on the previous Windowshpc...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 01/18/2008
Note to the following section's posts
The following posts are exact copies of original entries to the "Chronicles of a Cluster...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 01/17/2008
Note to the following posts
The following posts are exact copies of Calvin's entries on the previous Windowshpc portal site. I...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 01/16/2008
CCS battles Climate Change
posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:52 PM by ktakeda | 0 Comments Read about the Southampton...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 01/15/2008
Channel9 Video Presents New Job Scheduler OGF Web Service Interface
View the screen-cast here: https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=369487
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 01/02/2008
Channel9 Video Presents the New Job Scheduler Features
Watch the screen-cast at https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=366694.
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 12/17/2007
Channel9 Video on Network Direct RDMA Service Provider Interface
Posted here: https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=366683
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 12/17/2007
HPC Server 2008 Beta 1 - How to extend the 30 days grace period
Dear community, With Windows Server 2008 the product key management has changed over Windows Server...
Author: Xpillon Date: 12/12/2007
Channel9 Video about the New Network Direct RDMA Interface
Check it out here: https://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=366683
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 12/10/2007
HPC Application Deployment Scenarios and Redistributable Dependencies
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta1 introduces 3 new programmatic interfaces to the Compute Cluster...
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 12/06/2007
Building native Windows binaries from UNIX code
Are you looking for a convenient and familiar way to port your UNIX code to Windows for use on the...
Author: DennisCr Date: 11/29/2007
MSMPI v1 symbols are available!
The symbols for MSMPI v1 RTM and SP1 are available on the Microsoft public symbols server @...
Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/28/2007
Introduction
We are pleased to introduce a new blog category to accomodate all questions, discussions and tips...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 11/26/2007
Hardware Configuration for Larger Clusters
Hi, I’m Doug and I design & run production Windows Compute Cluster Server clusters for the HPC...
Author: DougLi Date: 11/16/2007
Windows HPC Server 2008 JumpStart for ITPro and Developer
Consider registering for a 1 day Windows HPC Server 2008 immersion event. Designed to introduce new...
Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/15/2007
This site is going live on November 15.
Hello to everybody in the WindowsHPC community! We have finalized the first phase of development for...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 11/14/2007
Chronicles of a Cluster Troubleshooter
Applications Performance Improved with Snoop Filter Off on Intel 5000x Chipset Chronicles of a...
Author: FrankChism Date: 10/24/2007
Applications Performance Improved with Snoop Filter Off on Intel 5000x Chipset
Chronicles of a Cluster Troubleshooter Volume One #1 Date: October 5, 2007 Issue: Performance of...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 10/24/2007
Note to the following Deployment posts
The following posts are exact copies of entries in the same titled blog on the previous Windowshpc...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 10/16/2007
Cleaning up CCS perf counter entries
Just a quick note. When you uninstall CCP V1, the performance counter categories "Compute Cluster"...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 10/12/2007
University of Southampton provides Windows access to the UK National Grid Service
posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:11 PM by DennisCr | The University of Southampton is the...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 09/20/2007
9,200 Core Windows CCS Cluster
posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:39 AM by saptak | 0 Comments Actually, the cluster is a dual boot...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 08/30/2007
Check out Ryan Waite's interview on the "How Software Is Built" blog.
https://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2007/07/22/interview-with-ryan-waite/ In this interview, Ryan Waite,...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 08/06/2007
Using "clusrun" to deploy PowerShell, VC runtimes, or other goodies to your compute nodes
Normally, deploying applications to a large number of Windows machines requires substantial planning...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 07/06/2007
License aware job application filter
When many HPC applications have to be used on a cluster, most of the time they are using the well...
Author: Xpillon Date: 05/19/2007
Computer Cluster User Group Meeting Success
posted Saturday, April 28, 2007 2:40 PM by ktakeda | 0 Comments Thanks to the 70+ participants for...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 04/28/2007
An Introduction
I've been at Microsoft since 1996 in various roles on product teams and in consulting. These days I...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 04/07/2007
How to detect CCS
Because ISVs have to support solutions from multiple vendors, I frequently get asked: "How do I know...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 04/06/2007
Epilog Tracing library ported to CCS
posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:54 PM by dongarra | 0 Comments The Epilog tracing library (part of...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 03/29/2007
HPL on CCS at UT
posted Monday, February 19, 2007 7:08 PM by dongarra | 0 Comments High Performance Linpack (HPL) The...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 02/19/2007
Numerical Algebra development with LAPACK and ScaLAPACK
posted Monday, February 19, 2007 2:18 PM by dongarra | 1 Comments Our work in this area includes...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 02/19/2007
Performance Evaluation and Analysis with PAPI
posted Sunday, February 18, 2007 1:04 PM by dongarra | 1 Comments • PAPI The Performance API (PAPI)...
Author: MichaelCole Date: 02/18/2007