What's New in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

This topic summarizes new and changed features to help you get up to speed quickly.

What's New in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1

This topic summarizes new and changed features in Service Pack 1 to help you get up to speed quickly.

What's New in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2

This topic summarizes new and changed features in Service Pack 2 to help you get up to speed quickly.

What's New in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 3

This topic summarizes new and changed features in Service Pack 3 to help you get up to speed quickly.

New Feature Evaluation Guide for Windows HPC Server R2

This guide includes scenarios and steps to help you try new features in this release.

New Feature Evaluation Guide for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1

This guide includes scenarios and steps to help you try new features included in Service Pack 1.

New Feature Evaluation Guide for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP2

This guide includes scenarios and steps to help you try new features included in Service Pack 2.

What Is Included in the HPC Services for Excel

This topic describes the features that are included with HPC Services for Excel. HPC Services for Excel include service-oriented architecture (SOA) clients and services that enable developers to quickly convert workbooks to run on a cluster. The cluster-side features are available with the Enterprise Edition of HPC Pack 2008 R2.

Compatibility of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 with Previous Versions of Windows HPC Server

This topic summarizes the compatibility of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 with Windows HPC Server 2008 and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.

Database Capacity Planning and Tuning in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

The information in this document is intended to help you determine the database configuration and additional tuning options that are appropriate for your cluster.

FAQ about Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

Questions about licensing, requirements, pricing, migration, and backwards compatibility for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 are all answered here.

Applications for Windows HPC Server

This page provides a list of applications that run on Windows HPC Server. The list is sortable, and can be filtered by category (for example, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Manufacturing) and by type (Commercial or Open Source).

Videos

Links to videos about Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, including overviews of technical computing, monitoring, management, diagnostics, and job scheduling.

Datasheet for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

This datasheet outlines the ease of deployment, the powerful monitoring and scheduling tools, and the enhanced productivity that Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 provides.

Installation Preparation Wizard

Available in the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Tool Pack, the Installation Preparation Wizard identifies environment and operating system configuration settings that can cause HPC Pack 2008 R2 installation, configuration, and node deployment issues. It This wizard can be run from any computer, before HPC Pack 2008 R2 is installed. It generates an HTML report with warnings, checklists, best practices, and links to online documentation.

Download Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite Evaluation

You can download the evaluation versions of the Windows Server® 2008 R2 HPC Edition operating system and HPC Pack 2008 R2.

Deploy a virtual HPC 2008 R2 cluster for evaluation purposes (click-through tutorial)

The click-through simulation will guide you through the installation of virtual Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 cluster. The virtual HPC compute nodes will be deployed automatically over a virtual network. Configuring your own cluster while following this simulation should take about 2 hours.

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

The technical library for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.