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Best Places to find Windows HPC Server 2008 Resources

Neil Hutson — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:36:00 GMT

Within the team we compiled a great lists of "best places" to find information about Windows HPC Server 2008 which just RTM'd.

Community Sites which contain a lot of screens casts and interview content

TechNet Edge - A collection of Windows HPC topical demonstrations for the IT Professionals.

Channel9 - A collection of Windows HPC topical demonstrations for the Developer.

WindowsHPC.net - The HPC Community and technical forums.

http://www.microsoft.com/hpc - The Microsoft product portal. See the on-demand webcasts via the events tab.

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/hpc - A listing of resources for developers.

A great list of bloggers on this subject from within Microsoft

http://blogs.technet.com/gmarchetti

http://blogs.msdn.com/volkerw

http://blogs.msdn.com/hpctrekker

http://blogs.msdn.com/philpenn

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/hpc

Whitepapers

Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Overview Data Sheet
Here's a quick overview of Windows HPC Server 2008 benefits and features.
Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Templates
Learn how Job templates can help streamline the job submission process.
Windows HPC Server 2008: Using MS-MPI
Find out more about the new high performance Message Passing Interface (MPI) stack included in Microsoft HPC Pack 2008.
Overview of SOA Programming Model and Runtime System for Windows HPC Server 2008
This white paper provides a technical overview of SOA applications and the Windows HPC Server 2008 functions that support the SOA model.

Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Overview
Get a detailed overview of Windows HPC Server 2008 new features and benefits.

Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler
Learn how the Windows HPC Server 2008 new Job Scheduler provides greater scalability and supports advanced policies. It also includes a new service-oriented architecture (SOA) mode that allows interactive applications.

Windows HPC Server 2008 System Management Overview
Learn more about the Windows HPC Server 2008 centralized management and deployment interface with template-based deployment capabilities, and a Network Configuration Wizard that helps to simplify network and topology setup and configuration.

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.