Windows HPC Clusters: Less Time-to-result – More success
| Windows HPC Server 2008 combines High Performance Computing with the well-proven ease of management of all Microsoft products. Your advantages? More productivity and less complexity in your IT environment, with a highly scalable solution for thousands of processor cores. Comprehensive deployment, administration and supervision tools can be easily integrated, used and controlled in your system environment. And administration is simplified by an efficient and scalable cluster management. Windows HPC Server 2008 is based on the strengths of Windows Server 2008. Innovative high-speed interfaces for network operation, protection against failure and a job scheduler for service-oriented architectures (SOAs) make the next generation of HPC systems even more reliable and powerful. At the same time, extensions of the .NET Framework help developers improve the efficiency of applications by means of parallel processing. With the powerful Windows Server Platform, the safety of the Active Directory and the proven Windows Operating System, Microsoft now offers its users a cost-advantageous and even more secure High Performance Computing solution. |
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Windows HPC Server 2008 – Feature Highlights
| Quick Deployment – Built-in wizards, tools, management consoles, and a To Do Liste help simplify the provisioning of compute nodes so that consistent system images can be created, modified, and deployed across a cluster. |
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| System Health Reporting – A comprehensive set of management, administration, and diagnostic tools scale to support larger clusters. The Heat Map provides at-a-glance views of cluster health, and helps to quickly identify and diagnose hardware, software, or network issues across the cluster. |
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| Advanced Scheduling Options – A flexible job scheduler addresses both batch and newer service-oriented jobs, and can be deployed in concert with partner schedulers for additional advanced policies or mixed environments. |
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| Network and High-Speed Interconnects – A networking wizard and network diagnostics tools, plus simplified driver management, help to reduce the complexity of deploying multiple networks across a cluster, while use of NetworkDirect helps to achieve better performance and enable efficient CPU utilization. |
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| Microsoft Ecosystem – Windows HPC Server 2008 takes advantage of the overall Microsoft ecosystem to improve the functionality, usability, and manageability of the cluster. |
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