{"id":1037,"date":"2010-04-07T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2010-04-07T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:58:56","slug":"windows-hpc-server-2008-r2-beta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 <b>Beta 2<\/b> is available for <a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/hpc\/en\/us\/default.aspx\">download<\/a>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to highlight a few new features and some recent developments:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00b7 <b>Scalability and performance<\/b>. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve continued to improve scalability, regularly testing on the 1,000 node cluster in Microsoft Research\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe plan to pursue Top500 runs that prove much greater scalability. We also know customers want to make use of spare processing cycles as part of their overall HPC infrastructures. Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/hpc\/en\/us\/default.aspx\">Beta 2<\/a> now integrates with workstations running Windows 7, enabling organizations to use them as cluster compute nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Link &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/windowsserver\/archive\/2010\/04\/07\/the-next-milestone-in-high-performance-computing-at-microsoft.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/windowsserver\/archive\/2010\/04\/07\/the-next-milestone-in-high-performance-computing-at-microsoft.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/windowsserver\/archive\/2010\/04\/07\/the-next-milestone-in-high-performance-computing-at-microsoft.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2 is available for download. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to highlight a few new features and some recent developments: \u00c2\u00b7 Scalability and performance. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve continued to improve scalability, regularly testing on the 1,000 node cluster in Microsoft Research\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe plan to pursue Top500 runs that prove much greater scalability. We also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12,90,176,8],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2008-r2","tag-beta","tag-hpc","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}