VolkerW's WebLog
Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals Also chirping at: https://twitter.com/volkerw
Hyper-V
"Customers “Get Virtual Now” with increased flexibility and broader support when...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/19/2008
Confused about Windows Server 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Well, I was when I read a blog post on Mary Joe Foley's blog a few days ago. There's also a later...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/19/2008
WWW 2008
Not what you think. WWW stands for World Water Week. This week is World Water Week. At least for me...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/18/2008
Favorite Posts of Week 33
My collection of favorite blog posts from last week in no particular order. Technical Books for...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/18/2008
Windows 7 Engineering
Wow, the Windows 7 engineering team has just opened the doors to their blog on MSDN. Go to...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/15/2008
Microsoft Virtualization launch
Mark your calendars, September 8th in Bellevue, WA. If you are in the area, don't miss this...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/13/2008
Try Windows Home Server for Free
Receive a free evaluation copy of Windows Home Server on the Windows Home Server website. In case...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/13/2008
Pixar Celebrates 20 Years of RenderMan at SIGGRAPH 2008
From their press announcement today: "RenderMan Pro Server 14.0 introduces significant...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/12/2008
Customer ready document on Hyper-V
One of the PMs on the Windows team sent around a list of valuable resources about Hyper-V today....
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 08/06/2008
Windows, Memory and the limits to it
First of all, no matter how much memory you put into your system, it ain't enough. And this is true...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/25/2008
High Performance Sanity Check
On his Channel 9 show Phil asks a loaded question: "Are You Sane? Who's sane these days anyway?...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/25/2008
Executing 32-bit Application in 64-bit
Back on May 1st, 2004 I posted about 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows and added some links to the post....
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/24/2008
Windows HPC and WCF with Windows HPC Server 2008
Quietly over the past weeks the HPC Show on Channel9 has grown its content quite a bit. The product...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/22/2008
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Is Available Now
Today Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 update package and went live on Microsoft Downloads. Check...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/21/2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 High Availability
Recently Giovanni finished his series of 4 screencasts about setting up Windows HPC Server 2008 for...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 07/11/2008
Hyper-V RTM is today
What else to say? Let the fun begin or - like Patrick says - "We’re bringing the joy of...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/26/2008
New HPC Performance Tuning Paper Available
Aleksey Savateyev, one of the Microsoft HPC architects in the platform evangelism team, just...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/24/2008
Exchange Server support in virtual machines
On Scott Schnoll's weblog "Is this thing on?" Scott provides details on the support for...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/24/2008
Bill Gates: Transitioning into the Future
Don't miss this exclusive Channel 9 interview with Bill Gates. Hear Charles Torre asking questions...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/23/2008
Virtualization or How Microsoft Does IT
In case you wonder how mature virtualization technology from Microsoft, namely Hyper-V, is, you...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/20/2008
Windows HPC - Playing with the big boys
Giovanni is convinced that Windows HPC Server 2008 is now playing with the big boys. Find out why...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/20/2008
Windows HPC Server 2008 now in the top 25 of the Top500 List
We are very excited to share with you the news of a major achievement for the Microsoft HPC...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/18/2008
Sweden, archipelagos and Teraflops
When I think of Sweden I think of the beautiful coastline and and thousands of tiny little islands...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/16/2008
A Hybrid OS Cluster Solution
Dr. Patrice Calegari, HPC Application Specialist, BULL S.A.S. and Thomas Varlet, HPC Technology...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 06/09/2008
A new HPC Blog
Wenming - our newest team member on the HPC evangelism team in Redmond - just started his HPC blog...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 05/05/2008
Virtual HPC Cluster Deployment on Hyper-V
The blogs on windowshpc.net are picking up steam. Great to see more and more folks from the product...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 05/02/2008
Job Templates
Over at windowshpc.net Barndawgie (?) has written a great post about scheduling jobs for a Windows...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 05/01/2008
Windows Server 2008 Virtual Labs
You all know Virtual Labs, right? If not, here are the first four good reasons to get them to know...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 04/29/2008
Month of HPC webcasts
May is the month of HPC webcasts focusing on several aspects of Windows HPC Server 2008 and beyond....
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 04/28/2008
TxF
Windows Server 2008 introduces Transactional NTFS or TxF for short. TxF extend transactions to the...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 04/23/2008
Hyper-V Check Tool for AMD Processors
Ben just pointed to a page on AMD's website containing valuable processor related tools for free...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 03/31/2008
Sucker
Depending on who you are, the work sucker has a different meaning. Today I have seen a SuperSucker:
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
Hyper-V Release Candidate available
YES, RC0 of the Microsoft virtualization solution Hyper-V is available for download. John Howard has...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 03/19/2008
Microsoft and Intel Launch Parallel Computing Research Centers
Just in case you missed this: https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/mar08/03-18UPCRCPR.mspx...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 03/18/2008
Microsoft HPC++ CompFin Lab
What's that? At least a pretty cool offering! The HPC++ Labs in general are an incubation effort...
Author: Volker Will MSFT Date: 03/18/2008