Wenming's Big Data and Big Compute Blog
All about running HPC and Big Data workload on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. I have been and will continue to cover a variety of topics on Hadoop, HPC, Migration from / Interops with Unix, Tips and Tricks for running HPC and Big Data.
In the first two blogs of this series, we installed the IPython notebook using the minimum...
Date: 04/17/2013
In the previous blog, we demonstrated how to create a Windows Azure Linux VM in detail. We will...
Date: 04/09/2013
I just returned from the Python in Finance Conference in New York, I would like to thank Bank of...
Date: 04/09/2013
Running the Python example step by step: We explained the basic idea behind LSA or latent semantic...
Date: 04/07/2013
Mammoth the NullSQL tool Most of us by now understand the properties of big data. Many of us are...
Date: 04/01/2013
Our previous blog, MapReduce on 27,000 books using multiple storage accounts and HDInsight showed...
Date: 03/31/2013
In our previous blog, Preparing and uploading datasets for HDInsight, we showed you some of the...
Date: 03/30/2013
In the previous blog ...
Date: 03/30/2013
Free datasets There are many difficult aspects associated with Big Data, getting a good,...
Date: 03/30/2013
Windows Azure HDInsight Service, formerly known as Hadoop on Windows Azure, is now available inside...
Date: 03/19/2013
In a previous blog, I explained Big Compute and the newly released HPC Pack 2012 from...
Date: 12/19/2012
While most of you that have been using the Microsoft HPC Server product know the history and...
Date: 12/19/2012
About 9 months ago, I deployed a Weather forecast demo at an internal Microsoft event, Techfest. The...
Date: 11/26/2012
The Super Computing conference attracts some of biggest names in the industry, academia, and...
Date: 11/21/2012
HadoopOnAzure allows a user to run Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Azure as a service. It is currently...
Date: 08/22/2012
Last month my colleague Don Pattee at the HPC team announced the availability of the Windows Azure...
Date: 12/06/2011
Just Published: Five learning samples for Windows HPC with Burst to Windows Azure covering Parametric Sweep, Cluster SOA, and Excel UDF offloading Programming Models
If you have CPU intensive jobs that require 100s of Cores on Azure or on HPC on-premise...
Date: 05/06/2011
I will update here with more information as they become available for this exciting...
Date: 05/03/2011
I will be covering some of the new, and more complete Azure burst features on my blog, please stay...
Date: 05/02/2011
Don’t trust the weatherman? Running my own weather forecast on Windows HPC Server (Rain is coming back to Seattle Monday)
One of the interesting things living in Boulder Colorado for almost 20 years is that I bump into...
Date: 05/01/2011
My previous blog showed you how to make a movie using ray tracing software and the powerful...
Date: 05/01/2011
For the last two years, I’ve been using my 6 core 3.3 ghz Intel Nehalem X 980 processor...
Date: 04/30/2011
We all know that Scientists and Engineers run Computationally intensive jobs. Many of us...
Date: 04/30/2011
I attended and gave a tutorial at the 11th LCI International conference last year at the Pittsburgh...
Date: 04/30/2011
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 or version 3 of the Windows HPC Server product has RTMed in July. The...
Date: 09/11/2010
This package includes two enhancements to ease debugging HPC applications. The first feature...
Date: 01/13/2010
In the past year, the Microsoft HPC team has demonstrated the ManyFacesOfGo application running on...
Date: 01/06/2010
At SC09 Microsoft Introduced Windows HPC Server 2008R2 Beta1. Channel 9 videos for Beta1...
Date: 12/16/2009
As an HPC cross platform developer, I have spent a good part of my 20s working on scientific codes...
Date: 11/14/2009
Quite a few folks from the Microsoft HPC team will be heading down to Portland next week to attend...
Date: 11/14/2009
Kyril Faenov, the General Manager, HPC and Parallel Computing Technologies, announced last week that...
Date: 09/28/2009
I have explained what SUA is and how it differs from Cygwin in previous blogs. Basically, SUA stands...
Date: 09/28/2009
The MPI Cluster Debugger (with C/C++ project templates) is now available via the Microsoft Download...
Date: 07/18/2009
MSMPI is Microsoft’s implementation of MPI (Message passing interface) library. I’ve explained...
Date: 06/26/2009
One of my previous blog explains what linpack is: LAPACK, LINPACK, ATLAS,...
Date: 06/26/2009
resourcekit.windowshpc.net Finally version 2 is updated and online. Changes include: New Parallel...
Date: 05/01/2009
The 10th LCI (Linux Cluster Institute) international Conference on High Performance Clustered...
Date: 03/21/2009
When it comes to HPC development, linear algebra libraries are the essential building blocks. ...
Date: 02/24/2009
Overview This update fixes an issue where the HPC Pack 2008 SDK was attempting to use a function...
Date: 02/13/2009
High Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters: Reduce Complexity with IBM and Microsoft Please join us...
Date: 01/02/2009
I am at Microsoft PDC this week, demonstrating the Microsoft HPCS Server 2008. Please come by the...
Date: 10/27/2008
Yes, it's ready! I have compiled a 70 item kit full of white papers, presentations, videos, and...
Date: 10/23/2008
Many people are still wondering exactly what Windows HPC Server 2008 is. On the launch day of the...
Date: 09/22/2008
PETSc, stands for portable, extensible toolkit for scientific computation, it is a suite of data...
Date: 09/08/2008
One of the most frequent questions I get when I talk to customers is, what is my best option for...
Date: 09/06/2008
HPC Basic Profile Web Service or the HPCBP for short, is a web service, built using the Windows...
Date: 08/24/2008