Introductory: 20% Intermediate: 60% Advanced: 20%
SC Conference - Activity Details
M10: HPC with Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008: A Programmer's Perspective
Presenter:| Joe Hummel (Lake Forest College) |
| Monday, 08:30AM - 12:00PM |
| Room TBD |
Microsoft entered the HPC scene in 2006 with Windows Compute Cluster Server. HPC Server 2008 represents version 2, offering a host of new features including head node failover, improved manageability, faster networking, and OGF-compatible interfaces. For software developers, the options in v2 are compelling:
* continued support for OpenMP and MPI
* distributed-memory programming in C# and VB with MPI.NET
* shared-memory programming with the Task Parallel Library and Parallel LINQ
* functional parallel programming with F#
* financial parallel programming with Excel
* interactive HPC programs via Windows Communication Foundation brokers
* integration with Windows Event Tracing for a more complete profiling picture
* improved APIs for client-side interaction
This tutorial will discuss each of these additions in detail, using code examples and live demos on a portable cluster. At the end of the tutorial, attendees will understand the motivations behind each option, and how best to take advantage.
| IEEE Computer Society / ACM | 2 0 Y E A R S - U N L E A S H I N G T H E P O W E R O F H P C |