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The first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Compute Cluster Server has been released to the web at http://connect.microsoft.com . The product team will be releasing a CTP once a month up to RTM.

http://www.tc.cornell.edu/wba The Cornell Theory Center has taken 10 of the top open source apps in the bioinformatics industry and ported them to Windows. They are all available as Visual Studio projects.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=0c12237e-58e3-4a9f-9637-ec6a4b9efe4d Check out the GotDotNet gallery for Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003. It has labs, examples, a detailed drilldown into the SC05 demo, and more. We...

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Not rocket science, but very helpful... If you go to the Network Connections in the Windows Control Panel, you'll see "local area connection" and "local area connection 2" on machines with multiple NICs. On my cluster nodes I rename network...

Log files that are created by various CCS services: ManagementService.log, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack\LogFiles . Exists on all CNs, useful in diagnosing compute node discovery and configuration related problems such as HN could...

If you haven't tried the clusrun script that comes with the CCS install yet, you are missing out. This script comes in handy in so many ways. Simply call clusrun with the command you want run on the remote nodes. Want to copy a file to/from all...

OK, I've got CCS installed on my head node and compute nodes, now what? The first thing to try is "clusrun /all ver" in a command prompt. This will return the OS version for all nodes in your cluster. Check to see the version is returned in the...

As you have probably heard, we are releasing a new product in 2006 called Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 . (yes, it is weird to have 2003 in the name of a product released in 2006). It is a product for high performance computing scenarios. Think...