The Microsoft HPC & Batch Team Blog
The blog for the Big Compute team in Microsoft Azure, working on HPC & Batch services and technologies
HPC Pack SOA Tutorial I – Write your first SOA service and client
This series of blog posts introduces the SOA programming model for Microsoft HPC Pack 2012. This is...
Author: Yumin Guo[MSFT] Date: 03/14/2013
Updating SOA service for HPC Pack 2012
If you are running service oriented architecture (SOA) services on an HPC Pack 2008 R2 cluster, the...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 02/11/2013
Announcing the release of HPC Pack 2012
Announcing the immediate availability of the next major version of Windows HPC software: HPC Pack...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 12/14/2012
Congrats to our Visual Studio buddies!
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 have launched. The live keynote videos are over, but will be...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 09/12/2012
Announcing the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program
I am pleased to announce the start of the HPC Pack 2012 Beta Program! The 4th major version of our...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 09/06/2012
Announcing the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 4 and Windows Azure HPC Scheduler updates!
As part of the spring WIndows Azure release, I'm pleased to announce that the HPC team has also...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 06/12/2012
Windows Azure Service Disruption on Feb 29th, 2012
For our HPC partners and customers that use Windows Azure, you may have experienced problems on Feb...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 03/13/2012
REST API docs on MSDN
I know there were a bunch of folks waiting on this, so I'm happy to say the REST API documentation...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 01/25/2012
Interoping Windows HPC SOA from Java (or other non-.NET environment)
When working with our customers to adopt Windows HPC cluster, some of them asked for interop...
Author: Yiding Zhou - MSFT Date: 12/30/2011
Announcing the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler and HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 releases!
Once again I get the honor of announcing, on behalf of the Microsoft High Performance Computing...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 11/11/2011
Preview of Windows Azure Scheduler and the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 releases now available
Microsoft's High Performance Computing team has just made our 'release candidate' for two products...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 10/17/2011
HPC presentation from BUILD
Come watch our development manager, Greg Burgess, give a talk on how HPC applications can be made to...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 09/20/2011
Database capacity planning
We've just published new guidance on how to do capacity planning and tuning for the database that...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 08/31/2011
Enabling tracing for HPC SOA applications
When helping our customers troubleshoot HPC SOA applications and cluster infrastructure, we realized...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 07/28/2011
A pair of new release updates
We have released a new set of 'sample code' that uses some of the new features available in the HPC...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 07/22/2011
Announcing LINQ to HPC Beta 2
We’re pleased to announce the availability of LINQ to HPC Beta 2. LINQ to HPC enables a new...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 07/07/2011
HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available!
The second service pack to the HPC Pack 2008 R2 software is now available! This update includes a...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 06/29/2011
C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism
One of the HPC team’s “sister groups” is the Parallel Computing Platform team,...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 06/23/2011
Uninstalling HPC Pack 2008 R2
If for some reason you want to uninstall the HPC Pack 2008 R2 software from multiple computers, read...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 06/22/2011
Creating a 'Service Pack integrated' installation point
If you are only deploying a few new clusters across your network, then applying the latest HPC Pack...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 06/09/2011
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 for Windows Server 2008 R2 available for public download
Hey HPC admins, since some of you are using iSCSI in your clusters here is some information that you...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 05/25/2011
'Dryad' becomes 'LINQ to HPC' !
A few weeks ago we announced the beta release of Dryad, a capability for big data running on Windows...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 05/19/2011
Dryad Beta Program Update
We’re happy to announce that as part of the beta for Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP2...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 05/06/2011
HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP2 Beta Program
HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP 2 Beta is a pre-release version of the upcoming service pack which will include...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 05/02/2011
Are you running SP1 yet?
If you have an HPC Pack 2008 R2-based cluster that you have not yet upgraded to SP1 - Why? HPC Pack...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 03/25/2011
power management solution in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (SP1) Monitoring Management Pack
Summary As Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (SP1) Green IT offering, we have enabled the power management...
Author: Yang Zhang - MSFT Date: 03/15/2011
A few HPC updates for the week
For everyone who loves the Excel functionality in the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Enterprise version, we have...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 03/04/2011
HPC documentation updates
We've published some new topics to the tech net library and the download center recently. Here are...
Author: HPC doc team Date: 02/21/2011
New HPC Sample Code
Today we have added an example of how to use Windows Server AppFabric Caching in conjunction with...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 02/04/2011
HPC Java Bridge - Enabling Java-to-Java Communication
HPC Server 2008 R2 SDK SP1 contains sample code that demonstrates the usage of Java on the client...
Author: Torsten Langner Date: 01/31/2011
Run Batch Workload on a Mixed Infrastructure (Windows Azure Worker Nodes & On-Premise HPC Server 2008 R2 Compute Nodes)
With the introduction of SP1 of HPC Server 2008 R2 it is possible to run workload on Windows Azure....
Author: Torsten Langner Date: 01/15/2011
'Network Troubleshooting Report' added to the HPC Pack Toolpack
'Tool Pack' is the name we use to release various utilities written by the dev team, outside of our...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 12/19/2010
Dryad Beta Program Starting
The HPC team is starting up a new beta program right now, read on for a description and sign-up...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 12/17/2010
HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) now available
The first 'service pack' for the HPC Pack 2008 R2 product is now available! This update includes the...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 12/01/2010
Highly Available Documentation
If you are interested in High Availability / Failover Clustering (and really, who isn't?) then this...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 10/19/2010
Microsoft Technical Computing - HPC Server Launch Event
Earlier this year we announced the 'Technical Computing' initiative at Microsoft, and set up a site...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 09/19/2010
Node XML Editor added to HPC Pack Tool Pack
'Tool Pack' is the name we use to release various utilities written by the dev team in their spare...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 09/17/2010
HPC Pack tool pack updated
'Tool Pack' is the name we use to release various utilities written by the dev team in their spare...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 08/25/2010
HPC Pack 2008 R2 and the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite have been released!
On behalf of the Microsoft High Performance Computing team I am pleased to announce that the HPC...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 07/26/2010
HPC Team releases Release Candidate 1 of the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 solution
We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 (RC 1) of the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 &...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 06/29/2010
HPC Pack 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
The second service pack to the HPC Pack 2008 software is now available! This service pack is a minor...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 05/12/2010
Application to create a Node.XML file from an Input File
Recently a couple of my fellow technical specialists and I were working on a Top 500 run at a major...
Author: LeeGranthpc Date: 05/04/2010
Suggestions to avoid certain timeouts and exceptions when using SOA
Avoiding Timeouts In HPC 2008 (V2) SOA, a service call lasts more than 10 minutes will cause the...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 04/15/2010
HPC Team announces Beta 2 of the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 solution
About 4 months ago we released the first major pre-release build of the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 04/08/2010
Activation Filter - New Options in Beta 2
Activation Filters are used to provide the administrator of a Windows HPC cluster with a mechanism...
Author: ccrall@live.com Date: 03/26/2010
Diagnostics in V3
When you have a cluster with a few hundred nodes, in a network environment that's often beyond your...
Author: Rae Date: 03/12/2010
HPC Team is proud to release our Beta 1 of the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 solution
Our first Beta release is now available! You can read the full press release at...
Author: Don Pattee Date: 11/16/2009
Clustercorp Rocks(R)+HYBRID dual boot solution
Today Clustercorp introduced their new hybrid solution, ROCKS(R)+HYBRID, for supporting Windows HPC...
Author: FrankChism Date: 10/14/2009
Headnode reports itself as Unreachable
I find a lot of people are starting to build demonstration clusters on a small scale with some sort...
Author: FrankChism Date: 10/05/2009