Wenming's Big Data and Big Compute Blog

All about running HPC and Big Data workload on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. I have been and will continue to cover a variety of topics on Hadoop, HPC, Migration from / Interops with Unix, Tips and Tricks for running HPC and Big Data.

A Unix to Windows porting topic: Threads and Processes

Any Intro to Unix class teaches students about the beauty of fork() exec(), the two classic calls...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 07/03/2008

Microsoft MPI Stack Explained

The Microsoft HPC solution comes with an enhanced MPI stack. For sure, it is not the only MPI stack...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 07/03/2008

Windows HPC Pack RC1 Ready for download

The download is available on connect.microsoft.com. You'll have to get a "liveID" using your email...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 07/02/2008

Windows HPC 2008 demystified

First, let me explain what Windows HPC is all about. Windows High performance computing team has...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 06/30/2008

Dynamic libraries on Windows, Linux and OSX

Dynamic libraries also known as shared libraries allow the same library to be used by multiple...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 06/11/2008

Scientific computing with PYTHON on windows (2/2)

As promised in the previous blog, I have prepared a walk through to get you started on programming...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 06/10/2008

Scientific computing with PYTHON on Windows (1/2)

Why Python? In the scientific community, python is becoming the de facto scripting language. The...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 06/10/2008

Explicit and Implicit

This is the final post of the simple HPC Math series I am composing. The previous two posts were on...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 05/15/2008

5 min Intro to nonlinear solvers

Nonlinear solvers are essentially solving a system of nonlinear equations. X^2 + x -1 =0 is a...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 05/15/2008

Math under the hood

We recently had a company called Simulia visiting us at a deep dive lab. Their product, Abaqus, a...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 05/13/2008

Problogue

Super computing is crucial for science in the 21st century.  For a long time people have been...

Author: HPC Trekker Date: 05/03/2008

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