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Microsoft Webcast: Microsoft System Center and Windows HPC Server 2008: Better Together (Level 200)

Windows HPC Server 2008 combines the power of the Windows Server platform with rich, out-of-the-box functionality to help improve the productivity and reduce the complexity of High-Performance Computing HPC environments. Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration,...

Tags: Webcast, Monitoring, Microsoft Corp., Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2008-12-04

High Performance Computing Webcast Series: Windows HPC Server Development, the MPI Application Model

Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces innovative features for traditional High Performance Computing solutions. Significant improvements have been implemented across the entire HPC stack. Learn about the new NetworkDirect RDMA technology and how it enables very fast, high-bandwidth, distributed shared memory computing. MS MPI is now integrated with Event Tracing for...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Server, Microsoft Corp., Windows HPC Server 2008, MS MPI, Job Scheduler Architecture, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Webcasts 2008-10-02

Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer

Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil on September 16 the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Supercomputer, Cray Inc., Microsoft Corp., Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Using Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MS MPI)

Windows HPC Server 2008 is a two-DVD package that includes Windows Server 2008, HPC Server Edition on the first DVD and Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 on the second DVD. HPC Pack 2008 includes a job scheduler, a new high performance Message Passing Interface MPI stack, and a new management application...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Windows HPC Server 2008, HPC Pack 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Recruitment & Selection, Document Management, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2008-06-01

Overview of SOA Programming Model and Runtime System for Windows HPC Server 2008

With the increasing number and size of the problems being tackled on ever-larger clusters, developers, users, and administrators face increasing challenges in meeting time-to-result goals. Applications must be developed quickly, run efficiently on the cluster, and be effectively managed so that application performance, reliability, and resource utilization are optimized. Taking...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, SOA, SOA Programming Model, Windows HPC Server 2008, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-05-01

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Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build

Microsoft made available on November 16 a code-complete beta of Windows HPC High Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 to selected testers. The company made the announcement at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Oreg. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Windows 7 security default worries experts

How many Windows 7 does it take...How many dribble articles about Windows 7 canthere be in one week.I heard Windows 7 is now helping the economy andit has changed global warming to global cooling.So the polar bears are now SAFE!!! Way to go Windows 7 it is like the messiah...

Tags: Operating systems, Ubunutu, Microsoft Windows 7, security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Win7

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

University Speeds Research and Enhances Researcher Agility With HPC System

The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of California at Los Angeles is dedicated to the development of scientific approaches for the comprehensive mapping of brain structure and function. Until recently, researchers who wanted to use the LONI HPC cluster needed both expertise in working in a Linux environment...

Tags: Researcher, Environment, Linux, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-07-07

Supercomputing Firm Offers World-Class Resources With Operating System Flexibility

R Systems provides flexible High-Performance Computing HPC resources for academic researchers and commercial organizations. The company offers traditional Linux clusters as well as clusters that run on the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. By making Windows HPC Server available, R Systems increases productivity for its customers by using the...

Tags: Operating System, Supercomputing, R Systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Linux, Open Source, Software

Case studies 2009-07-01

Cornell Uses High-Performance Computing to Speed Research, Extend Software Access

As one of the world's leading research institutions, Cornell University has been engaged in high-performance computing since that term referred to mainframe computing. More than 10 years ago, Cornell helped to pioneer the use of PC clusters. To give researchers - both at Cornell and at other institutions around the...

Tags: Software, Researcher, Microsoft Access, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cornell University, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Mainframes, Management, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-25

University Finds Windows HPC Server 26% Faster Than Linux, More Cost-Effective

University of Arizona, based in Tucson, is the leading public research university in the American Southwest, producing more than U.S. $530 million in annual research. When researchers at the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing at the University of Arizona investigated the technology to set up a cluster for autonomic computing...

Tags: University Of Arizona, Autonomic Computing, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Utility Computing, UNIX, Open Source, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

University Speeds Research With HPC Cluster, Sees Faster Performance, Lower Cost

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals is a leading educational organization for science and technology located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, with enrollment of about 8,000 students. King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals commissioned a center for High-Performance Computing HPC with a 1,024-core cluster running the Windows HPC Server...

Tags: Performance, Environment, Petroleum, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

Scientists Boost Productivity With User-Friendly High-Performance Solution

Nile University is a non-profit privately owned research university in Egypt. The life-science researchers at CIS need to analyse huge amounts of biological data to compare genomic sequences. Using conventional computers this would not be possible, so high-performance computing HPC is vital to their success. Scientists at the Centre of...

Tags: Researcher, Scientist, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Nile University, Leadership, Healthcare, Open Source, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Research Institute Speeds Cancer Research With High-Performance Computing System

Nationwide Children's Hospital, based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest children's hospitals in the United States. The Research Informatics Core at Nationwide Children's Hospital wanted to increase the speed at which it could digitize pathology slides and support researchers through faster computation of data. The organization worked with...

Tags: Hospital, Researcher, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Healthcare

Case studies 2009-06-01

Supercomputing Center Sees 46 Percent Performance Gain With HPC System

The Las Vegas, Nevada - based National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment is a full-service supercomputing facility with a mission for excellence in education and research. The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment wanted to expand the types of systems that it uses to include smaller,...

Tags: Performance, Supercomputing

Case studies 2009-05-01

Petrochemical Firm Achieves Savings, High Availability With Disaster Recovery Solution

Honam Petrochemical Corporation HPC produces plastics, synthetics, and basic chemicals and, following mergers with two other companies, was in the process of integrating its various IT infrastructures. With several mail servers in different locations and an increasing volume of e-mail, HPC wanted to simplify management by consolidating its servers and...

Tags: Solution, Microsoft Exchange Server, High Availability, Microsoft Corp., Disaster Recovery, E-mail Servers, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-05-01

Researchers Expect to Save a Year of Development With Move to Windows HPC

The French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA wanted to expand its use of High-Performance Computing HPC to study intestinal illness and obesity, but it needed technology that would be easy for multiple laboratories to use. INRA moved away from its Linux system and instead deployed Windows HPC Server 2008,...

Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Linux, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Open Source, Operating Systems, Development Tools, Middleware, Software, Software/Web Development, Management, Enterprise Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

Software Developer Migrates IT Environment to High-Performance Computing Solution

Software developer In Silicio, which develops simulation solutions for the microelectronics industry, wanted to offer its solutions to a wider market and be able to create faster, more complex simulations. Therefore, the company switched its open-source operating system to Windows HPC Server 2008. With the new High-Performance Computing HPC environment,...

Tags: Software, IT Environment, Developer, Solution, Information Technology, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Software Developer, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2009-04-01

Researchers Increase IT Flexibility With New High-Performance Computing Offering

The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control INRIA and one of its spin-off businesses, ActiveEon, worked together to establish a new version of ProActive Parallel Suite simulation solution for the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. The organizations did so to provide an environment that would...

Tags: Information Technology, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Flexibility, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

Leading Turkish Seismic Research Institution Achieves High Performance With Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, is providing postgraduate and doctorate education under the Earthquake Engineering, Geophysics and Geodesy departments and encompassing earthquake observation, research and application services within a single, integrated body. The institution is conducting a TUBITAK financed research project on the behavior of structures under...

Tags: High-performance, Institution, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Leadership, Software, Management

Case studies 2009-02-17