Microsoft releases Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Technology Preview

Microsoft Windows HPC Server is a high-performance computing for the server operating system. A year ago Microsoft launched Windows HPC Server 2008 the second Beta test version, Microsoft officially released Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Community Technology Preview (CTP).

High-performance computing has gradually become part of mainstream computing, HPC Server 2008 R2 can help users quickly and easily set up and run the cluster. Preview CTP version of the distributed management framework, a series of perfect upgrade, including creates custom thermal management analysis and planning system and the use of third-party reporting tools.

The use of the cluster will become like the use of other network resources as simple, and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 CTP also improves the job scheduling process, adding several clients required functionality. For example, the operating process and the before / after task, before / after the task is useful, you can use it to create and remove computing nodes. For example, when carrying out gene search, you can use the task function before calculating the nodes in all gene database configuration, parallel search, after complete the removal.

Finally, Windows HPC Server team also plans to add a new tool kit, including a new tool Lizard, on the Linpack benchmark for debugging. Mainly on expand HPC, performance and applications, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 CTP functions as a starting point to expand this year. The fall of Windows HPC Server team will demonstrate its performance as well as some for the Python/ Excel users and programmers to provide MPI applications improvement.

For more information, please refer to Microsoft HPC homepage

http://www.microsoft.com/hpc/en/us/default.aspx