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HPC Pack 2012 provides enterprise-class tools, performance, & scalability for a highly productive HPC environment
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HPC Pack 2012 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.
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Supported Operating Systems
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012
- HPC Pack 2012 supported Operating Systems
- Head nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
- Compute nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard, Datacenter, or x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, or HPC Edition
- Broker nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
- Workstation nodes: x86 or x64 versions of Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise, Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise
- Unmanaged server nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard, Datacenter, or Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, or HPC Edition
Additional notes:
CPU: x64 architecture computer, except for Workstation nodes which may run x86-based or x64-based processors
RAM: 1 GB
Multiprocessor support: HPC Pack 2012 can address up to 64 cores on a single machine, if the operating system supports it.
Minimum disk space for setup: 50 GB
Network interface card: At least one network interface card (NIC) is required. Additional NICs may be required depending on the selected network topology -
Prior to installation, please review the ‘Release Notes’ available on the Windows HPC TechNet site.
Download the Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 ‘.zip’ archive, extract the contents to the root of your drive and run ‘setup.exe’ to start the HPC Pack installation wizard on a supported Windows Server 2012-based computer.
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The following templates create an HPC Pack cluster in an existing Active Directory Domain
Template 1: Cluster for Windows workloads in an existing Active Directory Domain
This template deploys an HPC Pack 2012 R2 cluster for Windows HPC workloads in an existing Active Directory Domain forest. The cluster includes one head node with local databases (SQL Server 2014 Express version), and a configurable number of Windows compute nodes. Use this template if you have a virtual network with Express Route configured and you want to join the cluster to your on-premises Active Directory Domain.
Template 2: Cluster for Linux workloads in an existing Active Directory Domain
This template deploys an HPC Pack 2012 R2 cluster for Linux HPC workloads in an existing Active Directory Domain forest. The cluster includes one head node with local databases (SQL Server 2014 Express version), and a configurable number of Linux compute nodes. Use this template if you have a virtual network with Express Route configured and you want to join the cluster to your on-premises Active Directory Domain.
Template 3: Cluster for Windows/Linux workloads with user customized compute node image in an existing Active Directory Domain
This template deploys an HPC Pack 2012 R2 cluster for Windows HPC workloads with user customized compute node image in an existing Active Directory Domain forest. The cluster includes one head node with local databases (SQL Server 2014 Express version), and a configurable number of Windows compute nodes from user customized VM image. Use this template if you have a virtual network with Express Route configured and you want to join the cluster to your on-premises Active Directory Domain.
The following templates create an HPC Pack cluster in a new Active Directory Domain
Template 1: Cluster for Windows workloads
This template deploys an HPC Pack 2012 R2 cluster for Windows HPC workloads. The cluster includes one head node with local databases (SQL Server 2014 Express version), and a configurable number of Windows compute nodes.
Template 2: Cluster for Linux workloads
This template deploys an HPC Pack 2012 R2 cluster for Linux HPC workloads. The cluster includes one head node with local databases (SQL Server 2014 Express version), and a configurable number of Linux compute nodes. No public IP address is created for the virtual machines.
Template 3: Cluster for Windows/Linux workloads with user customized compute node image
This template deploys an HPC Pack 2012 R2 cluster with user customized compute node image. The cluster includes one head node with local databases (SQL Server 2014 Express version), and a configurable number of Windows compute nodes from user customized VM image.
Note:
It is an experimental feature to create the compute nodes as VM scale set. Some HPC features(for example ‘Azure auto grow shrink’) will not work if you use this feature.
This image contains the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter operating system with HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 1 installed. Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express is also pre-installed. Use this image to create the head node of a Windows high performance computing (HPC) cluster in Azure. We recommend using a VM size of at least A4. If you plan to add cluster compute nodes to the head node, the VM must be created in an Azure virtual network. Configure the network before creating the VM. To use the head node, you will need to join the virtual machine to an Active Directory domain and run the post-configuration script described here. It is strongly recommended to use the HPC Pack IaaS deployment script to automatically create a multinode or a single node HPC cluster in Azure with this image. For more information see here.
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The newest version of the company’s high-performance computing (HPC) software is out today. Known as HPC Pack 2012, the latest version has been made available to customers starting December 14.
The software provides support both for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
This is the fourth major version of Microsoft’s HPC software, and succeeds Windows High-Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 that was released two years back, and its SP2 update that came to market last year.
HPC Pack 2012 allows users to run HPC applications on HPC clusters that include compute nodes that are on premise, as well as part time servers and resources that are running on Windows Azure.
Microsoft announced the HPC Pack 2012 in a post over at TechNet.
“Nodes can be deployed in Windows Azure deployments in which Windows Azure Virtual Network is available. You can use HPC Pack 2012 to deploy nodes in Windows Azure deployments in which Windows Azure Virtual Network is available. Virtual Network securely extends your enterprise network to Windows Azure, which allows applications that run on Windows Azure nodes to access resources on the enterprise network.
With Virtual Network, you can build traditional site-to-site virtual private networks (VPNs) to scale data centers, and create hybrid applications that span from an on-premises HPC cluster to Windows Azure. This feature provides applications with the means to access files in shared folders, and to access servers for license validation.”
In its efforts to simply versions of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft had decided against providing a Windows Server HPC product as had been the norm before. Instead, the company now offers the HPC functionality as a supplement to Windows Server.
Windows has been locked in battle with Linux in the HPC space for a fair while now, and this new version includes several performance and reliability updates.
The newest version provides the ability to increase cluster strength by adding more than two head nodes in a failover cluster group, as well as single installation of all features that were previously split between the Express, Enterprise, Workstation and/or Cycle Harvesting editions.
Those of you looking to download HPC Pack 2012 can get it from Microsoft Download Center.]]>
Microsoft is now accepting beta applicants for the High Performance Computing (HPC) Pack 2012 beta program. For those that don’t know, Windows HPC Server is a high performance computing (HPC) solution built on Windows Server technology that provides a set of tools for your HPC environment.
This is Microsoft’s 4th major version and the High Performance Computing (HPC) Pack 2012 comes with the following features:
- Windows Server 2012 (including ‘Server Core’), the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and Windows 8 are all now supported
- A single version of HPC Pack 2012 now includes all the functionality that used to be split across the HPC Pack 2008 Express, Enteprise, Workstations and Cycle Harvesting editions
- HPC Pack now supports extending your enterprise network to Windows Azure via ‘Project Brooklyn’
- MS-MPI has a new ‘message compression’ feature to reduce the time spent waiting on communications to complete
- The job scheduler now allows for dependencies between jobs (in addition to the task dependencies that already existed) to better integrate with your work flow
- Windows Azure nodes can be set to automatically mount a VHD, which could contain some static data or application code, to make using HPC Pack’s ‘burst’ functionality even easier
- and more… A more complete list of new functionality is available once you join the beta
You can sign up for the beta program here.