Performance and Management Improvements
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The "Performance and Management Improvements" presentation looks at the improvements in Windows HPC Server 2008.
The discussion begins with a look at Abe, the Windows HPC Server 2008-based NCSA cluster that ranked at #23 on the June 2008 TOP500 list. The presentation then reviews the history of computers running Windows HPC Server 2008 or Windows Compute Cluster 2003 that made it to the TOP500 list.
The presentation then delves into some of the features that have led to performance improvements, such as NetworkDirect, the new RDMA networking interface. Next, learn about tuning the network (Infiniband and GigE), tuning the memory access, and other infrastructure tuning adjustments that can increase performance. The discussion continues with a look at tuning high-performance computing (HPC) applications, starting with the basics (such as perfmon) and then going into more detail. Then, see these performance tools and techniques demonstrated on a basic laptop.
The presentation then concludes with a detailed look at event tracing (specifically, MS-MPI integrated with Event Tracing for Windows).
