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Pixar Celebrates 20 Years of RenderMan at SIGGRAPH 2008

From their press announcement today: "RenderMan Pro Server 14.0 introduces significant performance enhancements including accelerated ray-tracing, faster processing of large polygon datasets, optimized hair performance, faster AOV's, and enhanced Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 2:19 PM by Volker Will | 1 Comments

Windows HPC Server 2008 Head Start

Later this year Microsoft ships the second version of the Windows HPC Server SKU, Windows HPC Server 2008. This product is a real milestone product for Microsoft and – I certainly hope – for the industry as a whole. Tejas Karmarkar a HPC Solution Read More...
Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 3:59 PM by Volker Will | 3 Comments

High Performance Sanity Check

On his Channel 9 show Phil asks a loaded question: " Are You Sane? Who's sane these days anyway? Ok, don't digress (again), Volker. Of course his question is not about the sanity of the reader but about a great tool to check the sanity of a Windows Read More...
Posted Friday, July 25, 2008 11:07 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Windows HPC and WCF with Windows HPC Server 2008

Quietly over the past weeks the HPC Show on Channel9 has grown its content quite a bit. The product group and the evangelism team is working hard to make the features we ship with Windows HPC Server 2008 transparent for the target audience. The latest Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:25 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Windows HPC Server 2008 High Availability

Recently Giovanni finished his series of 4 screencasts about setting up Windows HPC Server 2008 for high availability. Since posting the first screencast back end of May the series has over 25,000 downloads/views. Learn from the expert how to cluster Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 10:42 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

New HPC Performance Tuning Paper Available

Aleksey Savateyev, one of the Microsoft HPC architects in the platform evangelism team, just released a new white paper on performance tuning for applications on CCS 2003. You can find this and many other valuable resources on the Microsoft HPC community Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:53 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Windows HPC - Playing with the big boys

Giovanni is convinced that Windows HPC Server 2008 is now playing with the big boys. Find out why and what IB , Network Direct and 2 GB/sec have to do with it in his recent blog post. I thought the recent announcement was already proof enough or at least Read More...
Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 12:54 PM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Windows HPC Server 2008 now in the top 25 of the Top500 List

We are very excited to share with you the news of a major achievement for the Microsoft HPC program.  Running Windows HPC Server 2008 the HPC Performance Team recently completed a Top500 run on the fastest HPC cluster at National Center for Supercomputing Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 10:38 AM by Volker Will | 2 Comments
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A new HPC Blog

Wenming - our newest team member on the HPC evangelism team in Redmond - just started his HPC blog on MSDN. You can read his Problogue here . Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 9:42 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Job Templates

Over at windowshpc.net Barndawgie (?) has written a great post about scheduling jobs for a Windows HPC cluster via templates. So called Job templates are by no means something new, so why even bother to blog about it? Well, turns out the product group Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:10 AM by Volker Will | 0 Comments

Month of HPC webcasts

May is the month of HPC webcasts focusing on several aspects of Windows HPC Server 2008 and beyond. Please pay attention to these webcasts: 5/9/2008 08:00 AM : Windows HPC Server 2008: Management and Diagnostics in High-Performance Computing (Level 200), Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 8:11 AM by Volker Will | 2 Comments

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

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

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

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
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