Deployment of HPC Server 2008 on Dual-boot Cluster Walkthrough
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The "Deployment of HPC Server 2008 on Dual-boot Cluster Walkthrough" step-by-step guide provides instructions for deploying and configuring Windows HPC Server 2008 for dual-boot with Linux. The white paper takes you through the necessary steps: installing Windows Server 2008 and the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 on the head node; modifying the disk layout to create four primary partitions (the Windows partition, Linux partition, Linux Swap partition, and the GRUB boot partition); deploying the compute nodes; and finally, installing the Linux distribution. The guide concludes with brief instructions on how to dual-boot the cluster.
