VolkerW's WebLog

Wired? Useful? Be it as it may, in a recent post Phil describes how to set up a virtual cluster based on Windows HPC Server 2008 . He certainly knows what he's talking about. He evangelizes HPC for Microsoft. Also check out his first screencast talking...

On Nov 11th Intel already announced a "Fundamental Advance in Transistor Design," extending  Moore's Law and therefore computing performance. You find the full press announcement here . Why's it important in the context of virtualization...

My teammate Giovanni just posted a screencast highlighting the key new features of Windows HPC Server 2008 aka. CCS V2. Also, check out his blog post .

What's a platform worth without an ecosystem? Microsoft is working very closely with industry partners to port HPC solutions over to also support the Windows HPC platform. Recently four major players announced their support for Windows Compute Cluster...

These guys are definitely on a mission. Only a few after launch, look at the amount of content they have already posted. A long awaited community for IT professionals.

Today we announced the public availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 aka. CCS V2. While Windows HPC Server 2008 obviously addresses the HPC market, the Microsoft efforts in high performance computing go way beyond pure HPC. The second half of the official...

From the press announcement : ACML is a set of numerical routines tuned specifically for AMD64 processors designed to increase support for linear programming, an optimizing technique for mathematically intensive code, in multi-core processing environments...

Windows HPC Server 2008 (aka. "V2") comes with a boatload of new features. More than worth an in-depth training. This post is meant to inform you about a rare opportunity to learn about Windows HPC Server 2008 from a developer and an IT professional...

Looks like there is some confusion about our Hyper-V product. The Microsoft Hypervisor is called Hyper-V (as announced today). It will only be available for 64-bit SKUs of Windows Server 2008. Also the Hyper-V standalone SKU is only available for 64-bit...

BIOS vendors , OS providers and now database companies , everyone does his own Hypervisor these days. Interesting to watch how this game works out over the next months and year.

With the keynote at IT Forum still going on, the press announcements accompanying the announcements made earlier in the keynote are out: Quote Sheet: Industry Partners Support Microsoft Hyper-V Server New Microsoft System Center Offerings Extend Management...

One of the largest Virtualization conferences of the industry seems to happen this week in Barcelona, Spain. Microsoft Teched IT Forum . Obviously not a pure virtualization conference but the Microsoft technical event for IT professionals. But if you...

Check IT out. http://edge.technet.com .

After Burton Smith back in 2005 we have another Supercomputing guru joining Microsoft, Daniel Reed . Reed joins Microsoft Research as director of scalable and multicore computing. He has a long background in parallel computing. Reed was as director of...

We are just a few days away from the launch of our new community portal for HPC. Soon we will turn on the new and improved portal at windowshpc.net . We sincerely hope to meet all current visitors and attract even more new users and contributors to the...