14 DAY TRIAL // Windows HPC with Burst to Windows Azure: Application Models and Data Considerations is a new resource offered by Microsoft for customers that want to add extra computing power to their high performance environments.
The first upgrade for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 is designed, among other things, to enhance integration with Windows Azure.
Customers that already deployed Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can easily kick up a notch on-premises clusters with Windows Azure computational resources.
“With the Windows Azure “burst” scenario, various types of HPC applications can be deployed to Windows Azure nodes and run on these nodes in the same way they run in on-premises nodes,” the Redmond company reveals.
The documentation provided free of charge by the software giant is essentially a technical overview of designed to streamline the process of developing HPC applications with Windows Azure burst support.
“The article addresses the application models that are supported, and the data issues that arise when working with Windows Azure and on-premises nodes, such as the proper location for the data, the storage types in Windows Azure, various techniques to upload data to Windows Azure storage, and how to access data from the computational nodes in the cluster (on-premises and Windows Azure),” Microsoft added.
“Finally, this article describes how to deploy HPC applications to Windows Azure nodes and how to run these HPC applications from client applications, as well as from the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 job submission interfaces.”
At the time of this article, users might encounter problems downloading the Windows HPC Server & Windows Azure resource.
The download link is working fine, however, users are required to register, and the registration redirect seems to be broken.
This is why customers interested in accessing the documentation provided for Windows for Supercomputers and Windows in the Cloud burst scenarios can use this direct download link.