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HPC On Premise and Off with Windows Azure

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If you need on demand computational power, and at massive scale, then Ryan Waite shows you how with HPC Pack 2008 R2 in this video:

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/09/20/showcasing-high-performance-computing-on-windows-azure.aspx

 

After creating a node template (standard for HPC machine types) of type Windows Azure you can:

  • specify new node additions (and size)  by leveraging Windows Azure
  • including standard HPC policies such as time windows
  • self provision node by packaging, deploying Windows Azure Worker Roles

 

There is a great disco heat map of the cluster over the HPC Server Nodes (On Premise and Off)

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