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Windows HPC Server 2008

Windows HPC Server 2008 is a high performance computing (HPC) operating system built on Windows Server 2008 x64-bit technology and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, scheduling and monitoring tools for your HPC environment. The advanced job scheduler includes a command-line, graphical user interface (GUI), and application programming interface for submitting jobs to the cluster. Job scheduling interoperability enables integration between Windows and Linux based HPC platforms, and supports batch and service-oriented application (SOA) workloads.

Getting Started with Windows HPC Server 2008

Find important information that will help you install and use the latest version of Windows HPC Server 2008:

  1. Download the latest version of Windows HPC Server 2008
  2. Download the Getting Started Guide
  3. Get the latest Release Notes
  4. Download the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Overview

 

Featured Content


Building and Measuring the Performance of Windows HPC Server 2008-Based Clusters for TOP500 Runs
This white paper provides guidance for deploying and optimizing a Windows HPC Server 2008-based cluster. It also describes how to run the HPL benchmark to both verify that the cluster is operating well and to tune the cluster for optimal performance. Finally, the paper explains how to submit a cluster to the TOP500 List.
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.
Overview of SOA Programming Model and Runtime System for Windows HPC Server 2008
Provides a technical overview of SOA applications and the Windows HPC Server 2008 functions that support the SOA model.
Reviewers Guide
Find review information for Windows HPC Server 2008.

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Video

Burton SmithBurton Smith: On General Purpose Super Computing and the History and Future of Parallelism
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Audio

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Code Gallery 

Download and share sample applications, code snippets, and other resources with the developer community.

Lottery MPI - A sample MPI (Message Passing Inteface) Application
Lottery MPI - A sample MPI (Message Passing Inteface) Application
Windows HPC Server - How to Build the Intel® MPI Benchmark Test Tools
The Intel® MPI Benchmark (IMB) suite is an often-used component of a High Performance Computing performance profiling toolkit. This section introduces this toolkit for the Windows HPC application developer. Note that Windows HPC Server 2008 now includes several cluster diagnostics and profiling tests within the Cluster Administrator console.

Windows HPC Server
Windows HPC Server 2008 is a new edition of Windows Server specifically intended for use in compute-intensive server workloads. HPC Server includes job scheduling features, compute node management features, and image deployment capabilities.

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On Demand Training

HPC on Edge.TechNet.com
Training and HPC content video library.

HPC in Media
Digital media production follows complex workflows, from initial sketch to wireframe model, to rendered 3D images, to movies. HPC is typically used in rendering, encoding or transcoding.

Turning a Mac Mini into a Virtual Windows HPC Cluster (1 of 4)
How to 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.
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