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March 2008 - Posts

Hyper-V Check Tool for AMD Processors

Ben just pointed to a page on AMD's website containing valuable processor related tools for free download. The one of importance here is obviously an " AMD Virtualization™ Technology and Microsoft® Hyper-V™ System Compatibility Check Read More...
Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 6:29 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Sucker

Depending on who you are, the work sucker has a different meaning. Today I have seen a SuperSucker: Read More...
Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 4:19 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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What is HPC for anyway and where Microsoft fits into it

Giovanni has put together an excellent document highlighting a specific industry and how it leverages high performance computing (HPC). He also explains what Microsoft has got to do with it and why Microsoft is a perfect match with its set of platforms Read More...
Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 9:52 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Turning a Mac Mini into a virtual Windows HPC Server 2008 Compute Cluster

Best thing you can do to a Mac Mini? No, wait, certainly not the right way to start this post. I am going prepare a Mac Mini in such a way that you will be able to install a 2 or more node HPC cluster and a head node. Once you followed the steps outlined Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:15 PM by Volker Will | 7 Comments

Hyper-V Release Candidate available

YES, RC0 of the Microsoft virtualization solution Hyper-V is available for download. John Howard has an excellent and extensive blog post about the details. Please pay close attention to his post and read 'til the end before you install the bits! It is Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:01 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Microsoft and Intel Launch Parallel Computing Research Centers

Just in case you missed this: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/mar08/03-18UPCRCPR.mspx Today Microsoft and Intel announced a joint initiative to fund two universal parallel programming research centers. One will be located at UC Berkeley, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:39 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Web10

Did you get the Web 2.0 thing? If you just said yes, you might be wrong. There are too many definitions out there about what Web 2.0 is. In fact, so many definitions from so many different "authorities" that is has become way too confusing. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:33 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Microsoft HPC++ CompFin Lab

What's that? At least a pretty cool offering! The HPC++ Labs in general are an incubation effort within the Microsoft HPC Server product team. Some of its goals are: Demonstrate end-to-end integrated HPC solutions using Windows HPC Server 2008 and Microsoft Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:59 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

The 64-bit Tipping Point

Intel recently (re-) published a somewhat old document from the 2004's, " The 64-bit Tipping Point ". It has been slightly updated and is definitely worth reading if you are still considering to move to a 64-bit application model. The document Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:24 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments
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Overwhelming interest in Windows HPC Event in the UK

Have to share this bit of information. As part of the Microsoft wide evangelism about Windows HPC Server, we host a series of worldwide events for technical and business decision makers. In the past the sign ups for these free of charge overview events Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:46 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Essential Business Server

What's that you might ask. Well, there's a new blog you want to check out. Eric Watson, the Group Program Manager, Essential Business Server, has just started the new blog with 3 essential posts. Where can I get the bits? Welcome to the Windows Essential Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:13 PM by Volker Will | 3 Comments

More Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for Free

Thank you all for the email and for registering on the Windows HPC Community Portal. And yes, I have received more copies of CCS 2003 SP1 that I will give away for free. As with the previous set of freebies, please go to http://windowshpc.net and sign Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:21 PM by Volker Will | 2 Comments

FolderShare got updated

Being a huge fan and long time user of FolderShare this is great news. Not only announced the FolderShare team a new version today, they also started their blog. Find the updated version - you can just install is over the old - here . The team blog post Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 6:43 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Windows HPC Server 2008 CTP released

Today the product group has released the HPC Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP). This is the next major milestone on our way to RTM. As always, the software is available via Microsoft Connect. If you are interested in the CTP build, please Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 4:52 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Teched 2008, Call for session ideas on HPC

You're right, it's not that close. Except for us. Everyone involved in TechEd is heads down planning the sessions, chalk talks, hands on labs and more. For HPC we have already quite a few very cool sessions planned. Focus on Windows HPC Server 2008 of Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 10:22 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Corporate Email access on the iPhone

I guess you follow the live "feed" on Gizmodo: http://live.gizmodo.com/ . If not, here are my 2 favorites, cited from Gizmodo : Traditional exchange support is complicated. Microsoft has build an infrastructure that is better. Exchange/Activesync Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:32 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Two new HPC videos on Channel9

Last night Phil finished two more screencasts and uploaded them to the HPC Show on Channel9. All videos focus on Windows HPC Server 2008. The product is expected to ship sometime in summer this year. The first video is about the new diagnostics features Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:41 AM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Evangelism at Microsoft

It is great to be an evangelist. We do all sorts of cool stuff, talk about new technologies, run training labs, write blog posts, do screencasts, work on webcasts and videos. The list goes on and on. No, this is not a request for applications. I am in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:30 AM by Volker Will | 3 Comments
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HPC Event in Washington, DC

Microsoft is hosting a one day HPC event in Washington, DC. The event is scheduled for March 19th and is targeting mainly technical decision makers. The event is on invitation only. I just pulled the latest numbers for the event and it turns out that Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:14 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Try Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for Free

--- Please see update below --- You have checked out our community portal for HPC, www.windowshpc.net , and have downloaded a few of the samples, maybe the LINPACK code and now what? Where the heck do I get the bits to try CCS? There are a few option Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:58 AM by Volker Will | 8 Comments

What is Windows Server 2008 like anyways?

You don't want to miss the new serverunleashed.com . When I saw the internal announcement I thought: "Well, a robot. Ok, so what's new?" I was about to bitch about it. Good I waited. Pretty agile boy the new Windows Server 2008. Best thing: Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:11 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Apple has passed Dell in the classroom

Tim Cook, Apple's COO, mentioned it at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium a few days back: "We just received word on Monday that Apple surpassed Dell as the number one supplier of portables to US higher education for 2007." I Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:58 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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Future in the Cloud

These days there's a lot of talk in the industry about cloud computing. This is no different inside Microsoft. The hallways are full of "cloud talk" and "could action". I guess we will see quite some impressive announcements and products Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 3:19 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

I suck at Photoshop

That's a fact. And I gave up on it some time ago and am still stuck with Microsoft Digital Image 2006. It easy to use and does some of the stuff I want to do ... and ... you can't buy it anymore. Microsoft wants us to use the Expression tools . Great Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 8:43 PM by Volker Will | 2 Comments
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Microsoft Windows Server Performance team blog

A new blog has appeared on the Microsoft TechNet blog website. The Windows Server Performance team started their blog with a pretty exciting topic: " Hyper-V and Multiprocessor VMs ." As you can image, really interesting stuff. The post from Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 6:55 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments
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