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MSDN Webcast: Migrating Your HPC Applications to a Windows Platform (Level 300))
The latest version of Windows HPC Server offers the signature advantages of a Windows operating system such as ease of use, advanced professional development tools, and unparalleled binary compatibility. However, the migration of applications to a Windows platform can be a learning experience for a typical High-Performance Computing (HPC) developer with a strong UNIX background. This webcast discusses the anatomy of a typical HPC application and the general porting process. The presenter explains how to use cross-platform development tools such as Cygwin, CMake, Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA), and the migration API reference guide. The presenter also provides an update on the status of OSS solver and I/O libraries.
34 days ago by Microsoft3-D Developer Uses High-Performance Computing to Improve Programming Speed
Mgestyk Technologies is a next-generation 3-D solution developer of video games and gesture-controlled applications. To support future growth and performance, the Ottawa-based company required a more powerful technology architecture that could support a higher level of availability and productivity when developing its applications. With this in mind, the firm upgraded to Windows HPC Server 2008. The IT team at Mgestyk is using the High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution to improve programming speed and to reduce rendering times, which helps the company deliver applications faster.
49 days ago by MicrosoftFirm Uses Internet Service Bus to Enable Smart Grid for Dynamic Energy Savings
Invensys Operations Management is out to make it easier and less expensive for small electric utilities in the United States to participate in smart grid, an energy modernization program supported by the U.S. government. Utilities need a high-performance, low-cost way to distribute real-time pricing data to customers so that they can make smarter consumption decisions. Invensys responded by creating a smart grid communications platform using The Service Bus and Access Control Service, both part of the Windows Azure platform. The resulting platform enables utilities to immediately embrace smart grid services at affordable prices. Such services will help utility customers save money by using energy more wisely.
141 days ago by MicrosoftHospital Uses High-Performance Computing for Better Diagnosis of Voice Disorders
The Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology at Erlangen University Hospital needed to increase its computing power to conduct meaningful analysis of vocal cord data. The department decided to use a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster at the Regional Computer Center in Erlangen to increase its pace of research. Computations that used to take two weeks are now complete in a few hours, resulting in more thorough research.
141 days ago by MicrosoftMiddleware Performance Monitoring Specialist Forecasts Revenue Increase of Up to 500 Per Cent With Support From Dell OEM Group
TS-Associates plc wanted to enhance brand perception, simplify product development and support growth by replacing in-house server production with application-ready equipment from a leading solution provider. By engaging with the Dell OEM Group, the company obtained a high-performance platform with fast delivery. As the business grows, Dell will support TS-Associates with an increasing role in the manufacturing process.
172 days ago by DellSciNet: Providing High-Performance Computing for Canadian Researchers
What does one get when he/she combines 3600 Intel Xeon processor Series 5500 cores and 60 TeraBytes of RAM? For SciNet, who priovides high performance computing resources for research across Canada, one will get the planet's largest iDataPlex implementation with 300 TeraFlops of computing power in a data center that is among the greenest in the world.
181 days ago by IntelProviding Grid Services Based on Virtualization and Cloud Technologies
CESGA is operating a totally virtualized grid infrastructure that supports several production sites for different grid projects (EGEE, EELA, int.eu.grid, Ibergrid, and other regional grid projects) as well as several development sites created on demand to test new middleware releases both for EGEE certification and pre-production activities. The final architecture that results from several years of development is de-scribed showing how to apply modern virtualization solutions like Xen hypervisor to migrate from an entire physical cluster to virtual machines. Thanks to a collaboration with FORMIGA's project the infrastructure also includes resources from computer labs. Worker Node VMs are automatically started following a pre-defined schedule that guarantees that the computers are not in use.
215 days ago by University of Santiago de CompostelaIncreasing Performance for High-end Risk Computation
The attendee of this webcast learn how Cisco is enabling high end risk computation, sever, network and data innovation to increase performance.
250 days ago by IntelAchieving High Performance Through Shared Services
Whether run as an insourced or outsourced solution for common service delivery, shared services as a business model is here to stay. For several decades now, shared services has delivered impressive results for companies in terms of cost, quality, productivity, customer service and other key business metrics. Organizations have already seen that shared services works. Now, Accenture's 2009 global shared services study, Achieving high performance through shared services: Lessons from the masters, shows that demand for expanding shared services' scope and geographic reach has truly exploded.
290 days ago by AccentureEnabling and Optimizing Pilot Jobs Using Xen Based Virtual Machines for the HPC Grid Applications
The primary motivation for uptake of virtualization have been resource isolation, capacity management and resource customization: isolation and capacity management allow providers to isolate users from the site and control their resources usage while customization allows end-users to easily project the required environment onto a variety of sites. Various approaches have been taken to integrate virtualization with Grid technologies. This paper proposes an approach that combines virtualization on the existing software infrastructure such as Pilot Jobs with minimum change on the part of resource providers. It also presents a standard API to enable a wider set of applications including Batch systems to deploy virtual machines on-demand as isolated job sandboxes.
290 days ago by CERN
