On-Premises Deployment Options for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

Updated: June 2012

Applies To: Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

This section contains information about additional options for deploying your on-premises Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2 cluster.

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Adding Workstation Nodes in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Step-by-Step Guide

This guide provides step-by-step procedures for adding computers to your HPC cluster that are running the Windows® 7 operating system. These computers are added as workstation nodes, and you can use them to run cluster jobs.

Adding Unmanaged Servers to an HPC Cluster

This topic summarizes the requirements and steps for adding servers for cycle harvesting that are running the Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating system to your Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 cluster.

Deploying a Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Cluster with Remote Databases Step-by-Step Guide

This guide provides step-by-step procedures for deploying an HPC cluster by installing HPC Pack 2008 R2 on the head node and storing the HPC databases on remote servers.

Deploying iSCSI Boot Nodes in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2 Step-by-Step Guide

This guide provides step-by-step procedures for deploying nodes over iSCSI on a cluster that is running Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.

Deploying InfiniBand Device Drivers with NetworkDirect Support in Windows HPC Server Step-by-Step Guide

This guide provides step-by-step procedures for deploying and configuring the head node in your cluster, creating the node template, deploying the compute nodes and the InfiniBand device drivers, and finally testing that your deployment has been successful.

Advanced Deployment Operations in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

This is a collection of advanced topics for the deployment of a high performance computing cluster using Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.

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