High Performance and Productivity Computing with Windows HPC
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The field of high-performance computing (HPC) has seen tremendous growth due to the dramatic increase in the amount of data, the decrease in cost of hardware, and the growth of parallel computing applications. In this presentation, learn about the history of HPC at Microsoft and Microsoft's productivity vision for the IT administrator, the application developer, and the end-user. Also, get a detailed look at Windows HPC Server 2008�a combination of the Windows Server 2008 operating system and the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008.
The presentation begins by covering the four main functions: system management, storage, job and resource scheduling, and HPC application models. It then examines a typical HPC cluster topology and the integrated job scheduler, and then shows how the new Management Console enables the correlation of nodes and jobs through new features like a heat map view and pivoting. Many other Windows HPC Server 2008 functions are also covered in great detail, including NetworkDirect, a new RDMA networking interface built for speed and stability; and the HPC Basic Profile, a Web service that enables applications to interact with HPC resources.
