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Graywulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload
08 May 09 10:46 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
Windows HPC Server 2008 cracks Top 10 in Top 500 list
17 November 08 09:34 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
HPC Server 2008 Experience Counts Academic Program
10 November 08 01:49 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
HPC - MPI.NET 1.0 Is Now Released...!
08 October 08 11:12 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
Windows HPC and Pixar animation software RenderMan
19 August 08 11:49 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
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HPC 2008 & NCSA – 23rd on Top500 – Great Efficiency
18 June 08 11:01 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
23 May 08 08:32 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
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...
Windows HPC - Computational Finance Pilot
28 March 08 09:16 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
Silverlight-based cycle stealing
28 January 08 12:12 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
Windows HPC Server 2008 - 1 day training
28 January 08 10:16 AM | eScience | 2 Comments   
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...
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January update to Science @ Microsoft
19 January 08 12:02 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
MPI.NET: High-Performance C# Library for Message Passing
17 January 08 05:11 PM | eScience | 2 Comments   
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...
Supercomputing 07
22 November 07 08:24 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
Debugging MPI on Windows
11 August 07 12:03 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
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Dual Boot CCS and Linux Whitepaper
07 August 07 03:45 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
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...
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