HPC Pack 2008 R2 Express is also available for download

Nov 15, 2011 09:25 GMT  ·  By

Customers leveraging Microsoft’s offerings for the high performance computing market can head over to the Download Center and download the third service pack for HPC Pack 2008 R2.

But even though HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been available for download for a couple of days, the software giant has yet to update the documentation for this release.

For example, KB2565784, which should deal with HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP3 was still not live at the time of this article. At the same time, the TechNet section designed to cover HPC Pack 2008 R2 service packs continues to refer to SP2. And there’s no update from the HPC team at Microsoft on the release either.

There’s just a small description of what the upgrade brings to the table on the Microsoft Download Center page for HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP3:

“It provides improved reliability as well as an enhanced feature set including:

• The Windows Azure bursting scenarios has reduced the number of ports you have to open in your firewall, using port 443 for most communication

• The ability to install the HPC Pack software on a server not dedicated to your cluster (e.g. a team file server) for use in a manner similar to the existing Workstation Node functionality.”

In addition to HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP3, the Redmond company also made available for download HPC Pack 2008 R2 Express with SP3.

“HPC Pack 2008 R2 Express delivers enterprise-class tools, performance, & scalability for a highly productive HPC environment, providing an integrated cluster environment featuring the HPC Job Scheduler, Message Passing Interface v2 (MPI2) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) interactive application support, cluster management & monitoring tools,” the software giant said.

Softpedia readers have already been able to get information on another release, namely Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite SP3.

HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is available for download here.

HPC Pack 2008 R2 Express with SP3 is available for download here.

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite Service Pack 3 (SP3) Trial is available for download here.