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