Windows High Performance Computing (HPC)

Related Community Properties

• http://WindowsHPC.net
• http://Channel9.msdn.com/shows/The_HPC_Show Note: A collection of short how-to developer screen-casts.
• http://Edge.TechNet.com/tags/HPC Note: A collection of short how-to infrastructure screen-casts.
• http://blogs.msdn.com/philpenn
• http://blogs.msdn.com/hpctrekker
• http://blogs.technet.com/gmarchetti
• http://blogs.msdn.com/volkerw

Getting Started

• Product Portal (http://www.microsoft.com/hpc)
• Get the Release Candidate bits (http://connect.microsoft.com). Note: Register for the "Windows HPC Server 2008" beta program.
• TechNet Portal (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc510343.aspx)
• Community Forums (http://forums.community.microsoft.com/en-US/tag/windowshpc/)
• Professional Training (http://www.pluralsight.com/main/ilt/course.aspx?id=AP21)

Development Tools, Technologies, and Techniques

• Technical Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121218)
• Job Scheduler (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121220)
• Job Templates (http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/4/584d79a8-d80d-42f2-b372-11e817bd5354/Windows%20HPC%20Server%202008%20Job%20Templates%20White%20Paper.doc)
• The MS MPI Programming Model (http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/c/a/eca09493-3e66-4fb5-aba3-1e833c158052/Windows%20HPC%20Server%202008%20-%20Using%20MS%20MPI%20White%20Paper.doc)
• The MPI.net Programming Model (http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/mpi.net/)
• The HPC+WCF Services Programming Model (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=99742128-4C8C-4ADB-872E-C4099206C78D&displaylang=en)

Performance Tools, Technologies, and Techniques

• The Performance Corner (http://windowshpc.net/Blogs/performance/default.aspx)
• The Windows Performance Toolkit (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc305187.aspx)
• How to build the Linpack benchmark application. (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/How2BuildLinpack)
• How to build the Intel® Cluster Toolkit (aka IMB Pallas) for Windows HPC Server. (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/How2BuildPallas)
• Network Direct RDMA Infiniband HCA Drivers (http://www.mellanox.com/products/MLNX_WinOF.php)

Projects and Reference Code

• WindowsHPC.net Resources (http://windowshpc.net/Resources/Pages/default.aspx)
• Classic HPC Development using MPI (http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/drjoe/archive/2008/06/19/51178.aspx)
• Learn Parallel Programming (http://www.pluralsight.com/community/blogs/drjoe/archive/2008/08/18/learning-parallel-programming-from-shared-memory-multi-threading-to-distributed-memory-multi-processing.aspx)