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February 2008 - Posts

VHD compatibility between Hyper-V and Virtual Server

Honestly I was shocked when I read John's recent post about " Are VHDs compatible between Hyper-V and Virtual Server and Virtual PC? " Hestarts off with some "No, not supported" cases and I almost immediately started felling nauseous. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 5:01 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

10 lives for Windows Live

Over at Windows Live Dev News David Treadwell shares exiting news for developers, especially for developers on the Windows Live platform. But read for yourself. Windows Live Messenger Library (new to beta) – "Develop your own IM experience" Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:52 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Launch

Today's the day. Windows Server 2008 officially launches. The keynote is currently on and you can watch it live here: http://www.microsoft.com/virtualevents/vle.aspx . Today is a day the whole company has worked for for a long time very, very hard. I Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:10 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

SharePoint WSS3.0 on Home Server

Of course we all know it is currently not supported . Be it as is may, there's plenty of good guidance on installing WSS3.0 on Windows Home Server. For my installation I used this guide. This post is not meant to be another guide to do the same! I want Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:07 PM by Volker Will | 5 Comments

Installing Vista on a MacBook Air

Unable to resist I got myself a shiny, slim new MacBook Air (MBA). While I am used to Mac OS X, I wanted it to run Vista so I can also take it to work. My MBA has a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and a 64GB solid state drive and I bought a SuperDrive . Here's Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:57 AM by Volker Will | 43 Comments

Virtualization Starter

TechRepublic published an article about the" 10 things you should know about virtualization." If you are new to the whole virtualization thing, it will certainly get you started. The author, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, is right, "Virtualization is a huge Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:51 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Resources for HPC development – not only on Windows

Phil put together a collection of resources relevant for HPC development. I hope you find these resources useful in your discovery of high performance computing on Windows . Windows HPC news and content links: Phil's developer blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/philpenn/ Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:16 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

What have Visual Studio and Barcelona in common?

On one of our internal HPC aliases an evangelist from Japan asked whether Visual Studio 2008 (VS) can optimize code for Barcelona. Barcelona as in the AMD processor, not the beautiful city of Gaudi in Catalonia, Spain. Important question especially for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:38 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Considerations when upgrading to Windows Server 2008

My boss Neil just published a post on "Application Considerations When Upgrading to Windows Server 2008." Very nice and complete article. This should be your first read if you are in the process of evaluating Windows Server 2008. Content: Changes When Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:18 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Spark your Dreams with DreamSpark

Free software from Microsoft? No way! Wrong ! Last night Microsoft launched DreamSpark . From the Channel 8 program homepage: DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:08 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Microsoft Office Binary Formats - Availability under OSP

Brian Jones has announced the posting of the Microsoft Office Binary Format specs on this blog . Along with these formats we have also provided a few additional format specs: Windows Compound Binary File Format Specification PDF | XPS Windows Metafile Read More...
Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 9:06 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Inexpensive Quad Core and Software

You are looking for very affordable hardware to build a (perhaps virtual) HPC cluster? You are looking for a test version of Windows Compute Cluster Server? Here's one way to get both. Last week Microsoft ran an internal event for technical professionals Read More...
Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 8:31 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Looking for a fun place to work?

Needless to say that I have an open position in my team. Focus HPC and MultiCore. Check out the job description or send me an email via my blog. Microsoft is a fun place to work at. Looking for proof? Here ya go . And please don't send email to me asking Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:29 PM by Volker Will | 2 Comments
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HP HPC Podcast Series

HP offers podcasts on HPC on their Rich Media Portal. So far they have 2 podcasts up for grabs: Overview of the Catalysts for HPC Innovation Program Overview of HP's HPC Strategy Content is so so, but they've just started. I like the fact that the podcasts Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:27 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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InfiniBand for the Masses

Windows HPC Server 2008 supports InfiniBand interconnect. Nothing new here. We use InfiniBand in our lab here on the Microsoft main campus in Redmond, WA. It's time for an upgrade of the existing InfiniBand hardware. Now you would think, Microsoft, they Read More...
Posted Friday, February 08, 2008 12:54 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

If the answer is 42, what was the matching question?

The Register posts about the fact that "IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet." " The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working on a computing system capable "of hosting the entire internet Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:03 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Storage Options for Hyper-V

As always, Andrew beat me on this one too. Jose Barreto, he's technical evangelist in the storage team, posted a blog entry about "Storage options for Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V." Very nice, very complete. Content Exposing storage to the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:48 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Windows HPC Server - Introduction to Job Templates

Job templates are defined by the admin and used by users when submitting jobs to an HPC cluster. Ming Xu, he's working in a lead position on the Job Scheduler in the HPC team here at Microsoft, has just published a document "Introducing Job Templates" Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:17 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

TechEd 2008

Did you know, registration is open. This year TechEd US follows the same successful model as TechEd in EMEA. Two conferences back to back. Tech∙Ed U.S. 2008 Developers June 3-6, 2008, Orange County Convention Center , Orlando, FL Tech∙Ed U.S. 2008  Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:23 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Inside Intel's Silverthorne ultramobile CPU

ars technica published an excellent summary of the features and capabilities of the new Intel ultramobile CPU. While tiny in size, it is a full blown 64-bit processor. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:49 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Daylong event to honor Jim Gray

Jim Gray is missing for over a year now after he did not return from a sailing trip. To honor him and his contributions to the industry will be honored in a daylong event at the University of California at Berkeley on May 31. Details can be found here: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:09 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Grids for Kids

For the first 10 years of my life I was not exposed to anything computer or closer to digital than an ugly, bulky digital wrist watch. A recent article on GRID today showed me - again - how times have changed. Today, one computer is not even enough anymore Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:49 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Running LINPACK on Windows Compute Cluster Server

Hot off the press: One of our HPC gurus, Xavier Pillons from Microsoft France, just posted a How-to document, source code and an Excel spreadsheet to the windowshpc.net Windows High Performance Computing Portal. From his blog post : "I've just posted Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 10:52 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 RTM

A Reason to Celebrate. From an evangelist point of view, today is THE day. Windows Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing (RTM). This day the whole company has been working for very hard. Both, Windows Server 2008 RTM and Vista SP1 are important Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 9:01 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Microsoft China HPC Team blogging

Blogging again I should say. Welcome back HPC China Team to the windowshpc.net community portal! Here's the link to their blog. "We’ll be posting to this blog every few weeks or so to let you know more about what we are doing with HPC in China Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 11:04 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
 
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