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PluralSight is offering their first v2-based course on Programming for Windows HPC Server 2008!

PluralSight is offering their first V2-based course on Programming for Windows HPC Server 2008 (second Windows HPC course). It's being offered May 19-23 in Microsoft Waltham, MA MTC

Learn about the course

What's so special about Windows HPC Server 2008?

Find out at the WindowsITPro's special titled "Microsoft Sets Sights on High Performance Computing".

HPC Jump-Start Technical Training in Bangalore, India successfully completed

25+ partners and Microsoft staff attended the Windows HPC Server 2008 Train the Trainer event at the Microsoft Technology Center in Bangalore. The venue provided an opportunity for Microsoft and partner attendees to learn about and experiment with HPC Server 2008 product technical features and capabilities.

This event concludes the D&PE Jumpstart series of the Asia/Pacific region for FY08. A final set of 5 events in LATAM events and a few US trainings will follow in May and June. For more information visit HPCPAL or contact the HPC Evangelism team

The Microsoft High Performance Computing team is pleased to release a Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008.

You will find the Windows HPC Server 2008 Pack, an updated SDK and an OEM pre-install kit on Connect.microsoft.com. Download the CTP today and provide feedback to help us shape the next product release.

Attention: HPC Pack 2008 Community Technical Preview - Deployment Issue: Bare metal compute node deployment stops at the ‘provide windows product key’ step.

Bare metal compute node deployment stops at the ‘provide windows product key’ step and requires manual intervention. This happens despite having provided the product key at the template creation time.

A bug in the CTP causes it to not use the product key added to the node template (via the generate template wizard or the template editor). Please check out this forum post for workarounds.

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Technet Edge Videos and Documents

These videos cover several aspects of HPC Server 2008, from installation to job submission to monitoring. A few of them are interviews with final users or developers, sharing their comments "live".

Deployment of HPC Server 2008 on Dual-boot Cluster Walkthrough

This step-by-step guide provides instructions on deployment and configuration of HPC Server 2008 in dual-boot configuration when not only HPC Server 2008 is present on the cluster but another operating system can be loaded and used as well. Generic Linux distribution with GRUB boot loader is used as an example of co-OS in this guide. More...

Updated Windows HPC Forums

We have streamlined the Windows HPC forums for easier navigation and accessibility. More...

Special Coverage: Inside Windows Server 2008 Kernel Changes

A "must read" TechNet article by Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals More...

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