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Windows HPC Server 2008R2 Beta1 Channel 9 Videos
At SC09 Microsoft Introduced Windows HPC Server 2008R2 Beta1.  Channel 9 videos for Beta1 features videos are now live on the Channel 9 HPC Show .  It covers Excel [ Chris Crall ], Scheduler features [ Chris Crall ], SOA [ Ming Xu and Yiding Read More...
Unix to Windows API dictionary project
As an HPC cross platform developer, I have spent a good part of my 20s working on scientific codes under different operating systems.  Windows, Mac, LINUX, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, Solaris.  Building /compiling code is a full time job, not to mention Read More...
Super computing 2009 next week
Quite a few folks from the Microsoft HPC team will be heading down to Portland next week to attend the 2009 super computing conference.  I will be distributing a new version of the memory stick containing  reference materials .  ( download Read More...
China's new fastest supercomputer
China has apparently become the third country to build a petaflop supercomputer. Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday that the country has unveiled "Tianhe," a 1.206 peak petaflop machine powered by a combination of 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs, Read More...
Microsoft buys Interactive Supercomputing (Star-P maker)
Kyril Faenov, the General Manager, HPC and Parallel Computing Technologies, announced last week that Microsoft purchased Interactive supercomputing. [ link ] This is pretty exciting news for the Microsoft HPC group, as Star-P functionalities will be integrated Read More...
Installing SUA--- a Walk through
I have explained what SUA is and how it differs from Cygwin in previous blogs. Basically, SUA stands for Sub system for Unix Applications, and it is an alternative to Cygwin if you have windows server or Windows Client (7, vista) Ultimate installed. Remember, Read More...
5 minute tutorial on the amazingly easy to use MPI Cluster Debugger
The MPI Cluster Debugger (with C/C++ project templates) is now available via the Microsoft Download Center. Search for 'hpc debugger' or go directly to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d3993532-bdf8-4024-b164-db2ee8a851f5 Read More...
Examples of linking in MSMPI library.
MSMPI is Microsoft’s implementation of MPI (Message passing interface) library.  I’ve explained it a few times before.  MSMPI Explained , MSMPI SDK patch . Many people have asked me for examples that they can understand and relate to how MPI Read More...
LIZARD released into the HPC wild
    One of my previous blog explains what linpack is:   LAPACK, LINPACK, ATLAS, DGEMM, ACML, MKL, CUDA Easy Download Instructions 1. Go to MS download center site:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads 2. Search for "Lizard" Read More...
Windows HPC resource Kit version 2 available
resourcekit.windowshpc.net Finally version 2 is updated and online. Changes include: New Parallel computing content section in developers. Updated many older documents, presentations. New hpc webcasts from partners. New marketing white papers. We will Read More...
Linux Cluster International Conference
The 10th LCI ( Linux Cluster Institute ) international Conference on High Performance Clustered Computing was hosted at National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR ) in Boulder, Colorado on 3/9 - 3/12. This year's focus was on large scale system design Read More...
HPC MATH ATTACKS: BLAS/LAPACK, LINPACK, ATLAS, DGEMM, ACML, MKL, CUDA
When it comes to HPC development, linear algebra libraries are the essential building blocks.  You often hear about BLAS/LAPACK, so what exactly are they and how do they relate to the top 500 run benchmark called LINPACK?  BLAS stands for basic Read More...
mpiexec not working on windows XP? We got a patch.
Overview This update fixes an issue where the HPC Pack 2008 SDK was attempting to use a function that was not available on olders versions of Windows, such as 32-bit Windows XP. If you encounter the error "The procedure entry point GetProcessIdOfThread Read More...
HPC Web cast Marathon into 2009!
High Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters: Reduce Complexity with IBM and Microsoft Please join us for an informative and exciting webcast with IBM and Microsoft. No matter where you are located in the world, IBM has an HPC cluster solution that is easy Read More...
Say goodbye to 2008 with 10 HPC web casts
It's the last day of 2008, and I am uploading some of the web casts that we have done for HPC in the last year. All available at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The+HPC+Show/ (may take a day to fully show up, the the links below should work) HPC SERVER Read More...
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