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HealthVault + Your Web Service + Your Client Apps

Cloud hosted services such as HealthVault, Windows Azure, Office365, Dynamics Online, and others...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 06/03/2013

HealthVault Library for Windows Store C#/XAML Sample

The HealthVault for Windows Store application is now among the most popular Windows Store...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 05/25/2013

How to Configure a Windows Azure Virtual Machine File Server and use it from within Windows HPC Server Compute Jobs

Recall the following axiom from your CS101 class…? “To solve a problem, create...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 08/30/2012

C++ AMP Course Now Available From Acceleware

I recently attended an excellent new course offered by Acceleware covering the C++ Accelerated...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 06/27/2012

How to Configure a Startup Script for Windows Azure Nodes using Windows HPC Server Node Templates

Download the script files associated with this topic from here.  Refer to the authoritative...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 05/21/2012

Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK Now Available!

Easily Develop Distributed Parallel Computing Solutions for Windows Azure. A new optional extension...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/15/2011

LINQ to HPC Beta2 Now Available

Note the recent release of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 with a list of new...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 07/12/2011

Updated GAMESS for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

We recently completed a collaboration with the Quantum Theory Group at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 05/10/2011

Put a VM on Azure

Just expanding the reach of Giovanni’s excellent walk-thru on this topic, click here…

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 03/12/2011

Use Windows Azure for HPC Workloads

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (released in December, 2010) includes new functionality...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 03/01/2011

Resources for Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate

The SP1 RC is now available for evaluation download.   Please see the following associated...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/26/2010

IE9 & WP7 Announcements

Two big product announcements in as many days!   The IE9 beta is available for evaluation...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 09/16/2010

September MSDN Magazine – Focus on Concurrency

Many of us are still awaiting the many-core machines we keep reading about. But, writing code for...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 09/02/2010

New Book – Parallel Programming with Microsoft .NET

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices team has announced completion of their latest publication...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 09/02/2010

Experimenting with Data and Services

Like me, you may have missed the AzGroups.org Day of .NET event in Phoenix during the latter part of...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 08/25/2010

Introducing LightSwitch and WebMatrix - New Visual Studio Tools

You'll want to check-out these two new tools that extend the functionality of Visual Studio and make...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 08/04/2010

University Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) “Summer School”

The UPCRC at the University of Illinois is hosting it’s 2010 Summer School on Multicore Programming...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 07/21/2010

Using PCP – Parallel.For() Overloads for Common Task Scheduling Scenarios

A common pattern in parallel computing scenarios is the task scheduling/execution scenario of...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 06/21/2010

Windows Server 2008 R2 Application Readiness

Customers tell us that the verified compatibility of their applications is the #1 factor driving...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 06/02/2010

Phil @ Houston C# SIG

If you’re in Houston on May 17, please consider yourself welcome to join us for a presentation on...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 05/12/2010

Using PCP - How to accomplish Reduction

A common operation in parallel code design involves accumulating, or “reducing”, results from a...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 05/04/2010

New Windows Azure Reference Application Available

Learning Windows Azure development?   You’ll want to see the new “Bid-Now” sample...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 04/21/2010

2010 Scripting Games

The Scripting Guys are back!  Every year, the Scripting Guys host something called the...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 04/08/2010

New Parallel Computing Platform (PCP) Developer Resources

The Visual Studio Launch will open a new chapter for Developers writing Windows...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 03/17/2010

New Windows Phone Training Kit and Developer Tools!

Today, Microsoft released the first Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit. The Kit included...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 03/15/2010

Parallel Computing Platform Developer Lab

Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism, in collaboration with the Microsoft Parallel...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 03/03/2010

Get Windows Server App-Fabric beta2 via the Web Platform Installer

AppFabric is a combination of the distributed caching features previously codenamed “Velocity” and...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 03/01/2010

MPI Project Template for Visual Studio 2008/2010

This new Visual Studio Gallery template sets up a project that can be used as the starting point for...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 02/23/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Arrives

Designing applications for “many-core” scale?   You’ll want to consider the C++...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 02/09/2010

Application Compatibility Resources for R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 includes changes to the kernel and user-mode API’s to support virtualization,...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 01/26/2010

Windows Server 2008 R2 – Feature Components Poster

Please see this new interactive poster available online via Silverlight and SeaDragon...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 01/14/2010

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy

The Windows Server 2008 R2 Web Server (Internet Information Services, IIS 7.5) is built with a...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 01/13/2010

Updated Concurrency Dev Center

Please see the next-generation “MSDN Concurrency Developer Center”.   Lots of new content...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 12/03/2009

Traveling to PDC’09? Take along new technical videos!

From the New R2 Learning Center on Channel9 Explore this significant Windows Server release via a...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/13/2009

PDC’09 Session Recommendations

Monday (all-day workshops) - Patterns of Parallel Programming: A Tutorial on Fundamental Patterns...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/12/2009

New R2 Developer Learning Center

Windows Server 2008 R2, “Not your average R2!” Explore this significant Windows Server release via a...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/09/2009

Windows Server 2008 R2 Developer Lab

December 8-10, 2009 Join from your office! This event is a 3-day remote-access "code-fest"...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/08/2009

The Parallel Computing Platform @ PDC’09

Attending PDC’09?  Envision building highly concurrent “many-core” applications using Visual...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 11/02/2009

Got Cores? Get the Core Info Utility

Check-out the new SysInternals utility, CoreInfo, for discovery of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 10/28/2009

New Channel9 Learning Centers

Learning Centers are a new one-stop place to find demonstration videos, hands-on-labs, sample code,...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 10/22/2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Now Available

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 10/19/2009

Windows 7 (+R2) Developer Boot Camp at PDC09

Windows 7 (x64) and Windows Server 2008 R2 share the same OS kernel.   Learn more about...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 09/23/2009

Top Developer Technologies of Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows® Server® 2008 R2 builds upon the exceptional legacy of Windows Server 2008.  R2 is an...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 08/19/2009

A Computing Platform That Scales

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and...

Author: Phil-Pennington Date: 08/17/2009

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