At Supercomputing last week, Microsoft announced the next version of its HPC product: HPC Server 2008. The current version (”Windows Compute Cluster Server” or WCCS) is built upon Server 2003, while this next version is built upon Server 2008. I'll be blogging about v2 in the coming weeks, for now you can find additional information here. In particular, there's technical information available as a Word .docx, and you can download beta1 if you want to play.
Speaking of playing... I mentioned in an earlier post that you can build your own cluster with very little hardware, e.g. I'm using 2 dual-core Mac Minis. Phil Pennington just posted how to setup a cluster on your laptop / desktop using virtualization, very cool. Just add lots of RAM, and hopefully you have a few cores free on your CPU :-)
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Nov 19 2007, 08:18 AM
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joe-hummel