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Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
Graywulf is the natural evolution of Beowulf Clusters – it brings together HPC clusters and databases to do efficient processing and data management.  It’s name and design also pays homage to Jim Gray – who helped  champion the use of relational Read More...
Posted 08 May 09 10:46 by Dan Fay | 3 Comments   
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Windows HPC Server 2008 cracks Top 10 in Top 500 list
The latest Top 500 list was released at Supercomputing Conference (SC08) in Austin, Texas today and Windows HPC Server 2008 was part of the #10 placed machine [ Dawning 5000A] from Shanghai Supercomputer Center .  This is the top machine outside Read More...
Posted 17 November 08 09:34 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Academic Program
Great opportunity to get a special academic discount on Windows HPC Server 2008.   Windows® HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Academic Program You know the value of high-performance computing (HPC). No matter the topic - the inner workings of Read More...
Posted 10 November 08 01:49 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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HPC - MPI.NET 1.0 Is Now Released...!
PhilPen has posted that the folks at Indiana University have released MPI.NET: High Performance C# library for Message Passing .  The runtime and source code are available for download as well as a Tutorial .  This should make it much easier Read More...
Posted 08 October 08 11:12 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Windows HPC and Pixar animation software RenderMan
It’s great to see that Pixar will be releasing RenderMan on the upcoming release of Windows HPC 2008.  The rendering software behind such hit animated movies as The Incredibles , Ratatouille and Monsters Inc. should become even more powerful when Read More...
Posted 19 August 08 11:49 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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HPC 2008 & NCSA – 23rd on Top500 – Great Efficiency
The Top500 list was released and the cluster at NCSA came in at 23rd running a beta of Windows HPC 2008 .  What’s really interesting is the 77% efficiency and that it only took 4 hours to install the 1200 node cluster. Press Article - Windows HPC Read More...
Posted 18 June 08 11:01 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is available on Microsoft Connect and Ryan Waite goes into detail on much of the new stuff.  I'm really excited to start seeing scientists utilize and evaluate the new version - I think many of the new pieces especially Read More...
Posted 23 May 08 08:32 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
The Windows HPC team has just made public their Computational Finance Pilot where they are enabling execution of computational fiance models for university courses - there is a good paper on the implementation.  It would be good to see if the same Read More...
Posted 28 March 08 09:16 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Silverlight-based cycle stealing
Savas and I had talked about this idea of using Silverlight-based cycle stealing and wondered how well it would work. It's good to see this article on CodeProject about Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight by Daniel Vaughan . Read More...
Posted 28 January 08 12:12 by Dan Fay | 2 Comments   
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Windows HPC Server 2008 - 1 day training
Here's a good opportunity to get the latest information on the next version of the Windows Compute Cluster - now named Windows HPC Server 2008. If you're wondering why Windows HPC Server 2008 is a hot topic - take a look at the performance increases they've Read More...
Posted 28 January 08 10:16 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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January update to Science @ Microsoft
The January update to the Technical Computing @ Microsoft site ( www.microsoft.com/science ) is up: Spotlighting the SwissEx Collaboration with EPFL. A feature entitled “Determining Fundamental Principles of RNA Structure with Comparative Sequence Read More...
Posted 19 January 08 12:02 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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MPI.NET: High-Performance C# Library for Message Passing
It's great to see a high-performance .net library for writing MPI apps in C#.  It would be good to hear about implementations using MPI.net and how it works.  It would also be neat to see someone test out MPI.net with F# .  Can't wait to Read More...
Posted 17 January 08 05:11 by Dan Fay | 0 Comments   
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Supercomputing 07
Was at Supercomputing last week - overall the event went really well.  There was also a few announcements from the HPC team - the big one being the name and beta availability of Windows HPC Server 2008 and the new banners. Attended part of the Manycore Read More...
Posted 22 November 07 08:24 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Debugging MPI on Windows
Here's a very helpful post I ran across from Volker's blog on debugint MPI application on Windows.... VolkerW's WebLog : Debugging MPI on Windows This week our team hosts an event for Microsoft partners working on HPC migration projects. Developing requires Read More...
Posted 11 August 07 12:03 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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Dual Boot CCS and Linux Whitepaper
Just saw VolkerW post info on the whitepaper to help understand how to setup a cluster to dual boot between WinCCS and Linux...very helpful. Dual Boot CCS and Linux Hot off the (virtual) press: "Windows ® Compute Cluster Server 2003 and Linux." Many partners, Read More...
Posted 07 August 07 03:45 by Dan Fay | 1 Comments   
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