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• Try Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite with Service Pack 3
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Windows HPC Server Videos

• HPC Videos and Training on TechNet Edge
• All About High Performance Computing (HPC)
  What is high performance computing and how can Windows HPC Server enable a more productive HPC experience for end users, administrators, and developers?
• Overview of Event Tracing with Microsoft MPI for Windows HPC Server 2008
  Join Program Manager Robert Palmer as he illustrates new MPI tracing features using Event Tracing for Windows.

HPC Basic Profile Web Service Series with Steven Newhouse

A series of videos that provides a description of the Basic Execution Service (BES), Job Submission Description Language (JSDL), customization of BES with a defined security model, file staging extension of HPCBP, and Linux and Windows scheduler interop.

• Part 1: What is the HPC Basic Profile?
  The HPC Basic Profile, or the HPCBP for short, is a Web service built by using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provides access to some of the core job submission functionality of Windows HPC Server 2008.
• Part 2: The SDK
  The HPC SDK contains elements required for writing HPC SOA applications. Covered in this video are API in C#, XML schema, setting up and running the Java client example, WSDL generation, example implementation details, code signing/certificate generation, and head-node configuration.
• Part 3: Submitting a Job
  This video discusses the Job Submission Description Language (JSDL), and shows you how to submit an SOA job, run a job, and view the output of the job.
• Part 4: File Staging
  This video shows you how to submit a job by using File Staging. Users need to set up a place to store files for a job. This video demonstrates how download and upload files are supported by using the file staging extension of JDSL.
• Part 5: SOA Sessions
  This video provides a brief description of the WCF Broker model and the HPCBP-SOA xml schema, and discusses controlling the SOA session.