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Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC cluster. 4 of 4

Volker Will — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:42:00 GMT

I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a Windows HPC cluster in virtual machines based on Hyper-V.

Once you have Windows Server 2008 running, it is just a matter of a few clicks and a reboot to get Hyper-V running.

After this final step you are ready to use Giovanni's document and prepare your Cluster-In-A-Box-Mac-Mini.

Check out my blog post if you are looking for more details.

Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC cluster. 3 of 4

Volker Will — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:42:00 GMT

I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a Windows HPC cluster in virtual machines based on Hyper-V.

In the third video we are going to install the Windows Server OS in the Boot Camp partition.

Check out my blog post if you are looking for more details.

Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC cluster. 2 of 4

Volker Will — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:41:00 GMT

I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a Windows HPC cluster in virtual machines based on Hyper-V.

In this second video we are going to prepare the Mac hard disk for the installation of Windows Server 2008 via Boot Camp. Boot Camp is the feature that Apple provides to build a partition on a Mac hard disk to install Windows or any other OS side-by-side with the original OS.

Check out my blog post if you are looking for more details.

Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC cluster. 1 of 4

Volker Will — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:41:00 GMT

I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a Windows HPC cluster in virtual machines based on Hyper-V. Once you followed the steps outlined in the videos you will be able to install a fully functional HPC cluster environment, literally a cluster-in-one-box.

The video series will not show how to install the HPC nodes. Giovanni has posted an excellent document describing how to do that. I just focus in these 4 videos on building a nice virtual host for HPC clusters.

This first video shows the reinstallation of the Mac OS.
I had to reinstall the Mac OS due to the fact that I screwed up the original installation the system shipped with. I did so much disk partitioning and repartitioning that the volume was in serious conditions and required reinstall. I also wanted to keep a minimal Mac OS installation on the hard drive. Just in case.

Check out my blog post if you are looking for more details.