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Windows HPC Server 2008 is integrated with other Microsoft products to help increase
high-performance computing (HPC) productivity and improve the overall end-user experience. Collaboration through
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and the Windows Workflow Foundation, as well
as integration with Microsoft System Center solutions, improves management and efficiency.
Through integration with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows HPC
Server 2008 allows developers working with service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications
to harness the power of parallel computing offered by HPC solutions.
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Windows HPC Server 2008 combines the power of the Windows Server platform with rich,
out-of-the-box functionality to help improve the productivity and reduce the complexity
of your HPC environment. Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands
of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration,
and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing
infrastructure. A wide range of software vendors, in various verticals, have been
designing their applications to work seamlessly with Windows HPC Server 2008, so
that users can submit and monitor jobs from within familiar applications without
having to learn new or complex user interfaces.
Read a Technical Overview of Windows HPC Server 2008
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 brings the power of HPC
to the commercial mainstream. The centralized management and deployment interface
helps to simplify deployment for both large and small compute clusters and provide
a simple and effective management experience in order to increase cluster administrator
productivity.
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What's New with Windows HPC Server 2008?
Windows HPC Server 2008 is the latest version of Windows Compute Cluster
Server 2003. See below for a brief comparison of the servers.
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Operating system
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Windows Server 2003 SP1
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Windows Server 2008
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Processor Type
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X64 (AMD64 or Intel EM64T)
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X64 (AMD64 or Intel EM64T)
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Node Deployment
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Remote Installation Services(RIS) (Windows Deployment Services legacy mode) |
Windows Deployment Services
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Head Node Redundancy
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N/A
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Windows Failover Clustering and SQL Server Failover Clustering |
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Management
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Basic node and job management
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Integrated node and job management, grouping, at-a-glance monitoring, diagnostics
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Network Topology
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Network Configuration Wizard
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Improved Network Configuration Wizard
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MS-MPI
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Winsock Direct-based
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Network Direct-based; new shared memory implementation for multicore processors
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Scheduler
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Command line or GUI
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Integrated in management console, with support for Windows PowerShell scripting
and legacy command-line UI scripts from v1; greatly improved speed and scalability;
support for SOA applications
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Reporting
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N/A
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Integrated into Management console; extensibility features allow using SQL Analysis
Services for additional analysis
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Monitoring
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Rely on Windows; no cluster specific support
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Heat map on cluster or node group; per node charts; cluster-wide performance overview
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Diagnostics
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N/A
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In-the-box verification tests and performance tests; store, filter, and view test
results and history
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