The new management features built into Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 are the foundation for deploying and managing HPC clusters of scale up to 1000 nodes. Join us for a deep dive in monitoring and diagnostic tools, a review of the updated heat-map and template-based deployment. We also cover the new PowerShell-based scripting capabilities: the basics of management shell, as well as the underlying design and key concepts, new Reporting Capabilities, and a discussion on network boot.

3. Enable personal
supercomputing
Scale to divisional sized
clusters, enable new categories
of interactive HPC applications,
and interoperate with existing
IT infrastructure.
Integrate well with existing HPC
and IT infrastructure.
Highly performant and scalable
parallel applications.
Deploy, manage, and
troubleshoot clusters of up to
1000s of nodes.
Make Windows Server the mainstream way to solve scaled-out business, engineering and scientific
computational problems.

4. MONITORING: Ability to see at a glance current/recent changes to the system
across the whole stack( that affect my app)
Deployment Monitoring
Diagnostics Reporting
Provide reliable and consistent
system management and “excellent
manageability” at departmental and
divisional scale (1000s of nodes).

5. WS2K8WS2K8 R2WS2K8WS2K8 R2
WS2K8WS2K8 R2
V2
V2 V2
WS2K8
V2…
SQL
2008
V3
V3 V3 V3

6. V2 Head
node
V3 Head
node
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Admin Workstation
•Node.xml
•Node Templates
•Images

10. Investments in higher
resilience and better
failure recovery.
Remote Database.
Move to asynchronous
communication model.

11. WS2K8WS2K8 R2WS2K8WS2K8 R2
WS2K8WS2K8 R2
SQL
Express
2005
V2
V2 V2
WS2K8
V2…
SQL
Express
2008
V3
V3 V3 V3

12. WS2K8WS2K8 R2WS2K8WS2K8 R2
WS2K8WS2K8 R2
V2
V2 V2
WS2K8
V2…
SQL
2008
V3
V3 V3 V3
Data Center

14. Use DHCP reservations to provide Storage Server information to the
diskless compute nodes.
Leverage Storage vendor provided differencing capacity to store
Differencing Disks per compute node.

16. • Manage and Monitor the cluster at scale.
• Manage all resources from a single console.

17. Starting
•Select nodes and tests
•Start test run
Running
•View Progress
•Cancel Test
Completed
• View test result history
• View detailed results
• Pivot to failed nodes
• View and clear alerts
• Export result to Excel

19. • Each step is defined by a command line.
– This allows test to be developed in any coding/scripting language.

20.  Node Availability Report
 Job Resource Usage Report
 Job Throughput Report
 Job Turnaround Report

21. Windows HPC Server Customer Data Analysis
Data Warehouse
Other Authoring
Tools
DATADATADATA

22. Data Sources Management Job Scheduler Performance Metrics Event Logs
Data Collection Data Collector
Data Store
Data Store
Data Presentation Historical
Reports
Monitoring
Charts
Scalability,Reliability
Heat Map
Reporting Data
Extensibility

23. • Node Attributes
• Node Event History
Node Data
• Job Configurations
• Job Task Summary
• Job State and
Statistics
• Job Allocation History
Job Data
• Performance Metrics
History
Performance
Metrics

24. Expand the capacity of HPC clusters while increasing the return on your existing technology investments by utilizing desktop
cycles as part of your over HPC infrastructure.
Requirements
– Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise, 32 or 64-bit (requires
Active Directory support)
– Desktops and cluster in same AD Domain
– Desktops, head nodes, compute nodes, and broker nodes need
to be on the same physical, public, network (topology 5)
Security policy prevents unintentional deployment of an OS to desktop nodes

25. Desktop Nodes
Windows 7
HPC Pack 2008 R2 Desktop
Compute Nodes
Windows HPC Server
Database Server
(Optional)
Windows Server 2008 R2
SQL Server
Head Node
Head node
Broker Nodes
Windows HPC Server
Windows HPC Server
Public Network

26. • Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Technical Library -
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=168271
• Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta site on Microsoft
Connect - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169523
• Diagnostics Extensibility in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2
CTP2 Step-by-Step Guide -
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=177604
• Test Focus Guide for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2 -
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/ee783563(WS.10).aspx
• Twitter - @windowshpc

27. www.microsoft.com/teched www.microsoft.com/learning
http://microsoft.com/technet http://microsoft.com/msdn

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