Last month my colleague Don Pattee at the HPC team announced the availability of the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler and HPC pack 2008 R2 Service pack 3 releases. The title is long, but the story is simple, while we updated our HPC on-premise solution with...

  If you have CPU intensive jobs that require 100s of Cores on Azure or on HPC on-premise cluster, I’ve just uploaded five easy-to-learn samples with lab instructions. (See figure 3) These samples have been added to the same location of the white...

  I will update here with more information as they become available for this exciting distribution which covers MPI on Azure, Azure VM roles and other exciting new and essential features. TechNet Library: · What's New in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2...

I will be covering some of the new, and more complete Azure burst features on my blog, please stay tuned! The Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 software, and the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite, enables cluster based supercomputing based on x64 versions...

One of the interesting things living in Boulder Colorado for almost 20 years is that I bump into NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), NOAA(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and CU Boulder researchers on a daily basis. I have...

  My previous blog showed you how to make a movie using ray tracing software and the powerful HPC scheduler on Azure with little programming.  Today, we’ll look at a more complex example in a series of 3 blog posts in the coming months. ...

  For the last two years, I’ve been using my 6 core 3.3 ghz Intel Nehalem X 980 processor courtesy of Intel (thank you!), it slices through just about any workload like butter, for example, encoding a 1 hour live meeting video takes a few minutes...

  We all know that Scientists and Engineers run Computationally intensive jobs. Many of us often wish we had an extra computer or a dozen to run the applications that seem to take forever on our desktop.  We wait for the code to compile, the...

I attended and gave a tutorial at the 11th LCI International conference last year at the Pittsburgh Super Computing Center.  There, I had the honor to meet several leading quantum chemistry HPC code researchers. One of them, Dr. Wang Yang. ...

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 or version 3 of the Windows HPC Server product has RTMed in July. The official launch event has been set for week of 9/20 in New York City. I have listed the agenda and cool events below, and you can also use the URL: www.weekonwallst...

This package includes two enhancements to ease debugging HPC applications. The first feature integrates the ‘F5’ experience of launching the Visual Studio 2008 MPI Cluster Debugger for C++ MPI applications and your Windows HPC Server 2008 environment...

In the past year, the Microsoft HPC team has demonstrated the ManyFacesOfGo application running on the Surface and offloading game play calculations to a Windows HPC Server at several events.   Here’s a little bit of background information.  ...

At SC09 Microsoft Introduced Windows HPC Server 2008R2 Beta1.  Channel 9 videos for Beta1 features videos are now live on the Channel 9 HPC Show .  It covers Excel [ Chris Crall ], Scheduler features [ Chris Crall ], SOA [ Ming Xu and Yiding...

As an HPC cross platform developer, I have spent a good part of my 20s working on scientific codes under different operating systems.  Windows, Mac, LINUX, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, Solaris.  Building /compiling code is a full time job, not to mention...

Quite a few folks from the Microsoft HPC team will be heading down to Portland next week to attend the 2009 super computing conference.  I will be distributing a new version of the memory stick containing  reference materials .  ( download...

China has apparently become the third country to build a petaflop supercomputer. Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday that the country has unveiled "Tianhe," a 1.206 peak petaflop machine powered by a combination of 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs...

Kyril Faenov, the General Manager, HPC and Parallel Computing Technologies, announced last week that Microsoft purchased Interactive supercomputing. [ link ] This is pretty exciting news for the Microsoft HPC group, as Star-P functionalities will be integrated...

I have explained what SUA is and how it differs from Cygwin in previous blogs. Basically, SUA stands for Sub system for Unix Applications, and it is an alternative to Cygwin if you have windows server or Windows Client (7, vista) Ultimate installed. Remember...

The MPI Cluster Debugger (with C/C++ project templates) is now available via the Microsoft Download Center. Search for 'hpc debugger' or go directly to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d3993532-bdf8-4024-b164...

MSMPI is Microsoft’s implementation of MPI (Message passing interface) library.  I’ve explained it a few times before.  MSMPI Explained , MSMPI SDK patch . Many people have asked me for examples that they can understand and relate to how MPI...

    One of my previous blog explains what linpack is:   LAPACK, LINPACK, ATLAS, DGEMM, ACML, MKL, CUDA Easy Download Instructions 1. Go to MS download center site:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads 2. Search for "Lizard"...

resourcekit.windowshpc.net Finally version 2 is updated and online. Changes include: New Parallel computing content section in developers. Updated many older documents, presentations. New hpc webcasts from partners. New marketing white papers. We will...

The 10th LCI ( Linux Cluster Institute ) international Conference on High Performance Clustered Computing was hosted at National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) in Boulder, Colorado on 3/9 - 3/12. This year's focus was on large scale system design...

When it comes to HPC development, linear algebra libraries are the essential building blocks.  You often hear about BLAS/LAPACK, so what exactly are they and how do they relate to the top 500 run benchmark called LINPACK?  BLAS stands for basic...

Overview This update fixes an issue where the HPC Pack 2008 SDK was attempting to use a function that was not available on olders versions of Windows, such as 32-bit Windows XP. If you encounter the error "The procedure entry point GetProcessIdOfThread...