Lately, I’ve been working with customers who are doing both Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Azure and it seems that the experience level of customers run the full range of just getting started in both areas, to being experienced in either one technology or the other.
I decided to put together a non-exhaustive set of links that could prove useful to those of all experience levels. I state that this list is non-exhaustive because there are always more links, more blogs, more books and so on that can be found on the subject but I have found that these links seem to be the most commonly used. And if I find other very useful links and information along the way, I’ll make sure to update the list.
HPC Server
What is HPC Server?
What's New in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1
Release Notes for Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
New Feature Evaluation Guide for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 Download
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Resource Kit
HPC Server Administrator Course
Windows HPC Server R2 Suite
Windows HPC Tech Center
Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 SDK and HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK
MSDN Forums
Windows HPC Server Developers - General
Windows HPC Server Deployment, Management, and Administration
Windows HPC Server Academia and Research - General Windows HPC Server Message Passing Interface (MPI)
Windows HPC Server Job Submission and Scheduling Windows HPC Server UNIX - Interoperability
Virtual Labs
TechNet Virtual Lab: Scheduling Jobs with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
TechNet Virtual Lab: Managing and Monitoring HPC clusters Using Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
MSDN Virtual Lab: HPCv2: Introducing the Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Debugger
MSDN Virtual Lab: HPCv2: Introducing the Visual Studio 2010 Parallel Performance Analyzer
MSDN Virtual Lab: HPCv2: Introducing the C++ Concurrency Runtime
Scaling out VBA Enabled Excel Workbooks with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
Introducing .Net 4.0 Parallel Extensions
Introduction to Parallel LINQ
Training
HPC Developer Training
Blogs
Windows HPC Team Blog
Wenming Ye (Technical Evangelist)
Books
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2: Step by Step (free)
Parallel Programming with MPI
Windows Azure Platform
Windows Azure Developer Center
Training and Events
Windows Azure Platform Development
Windows Azure Platform Troubleshooting, Diagnostics & Logging
Windows Azure Storage
Connectivity for the Windows Azure Platform
Managing Services on the Windows Azure Platform
Security for the Windows Azure Platform
Windows Azure Platform Purchasing, Pricing & Billing
SQL Azure
MSDN Virtual Lab: Windows Azure Native Code
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Windows Azure Services with PHP
MSDN Virtual Lab: Getting Started with Windows Azure Storage
MSDN Virtual Lab: Building Windows Azure Services
MSDN Virtual Lab: Using Windows Azure Tables
Windows Azure Team Blog
Windows Azure Platform (SDK v1.2)
Programming Windows Azure (SDK v1.2)
Windows Azure Platform Training Course (free)
PluralSight Azure Training
HPC and Azure
Deploying Azure Worker Nodes in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 Step-by-Step Guide
Whitepaper
HPC Server and Windows Azure