Windows HPC Server 2008（HPCS）为具有高度生产力的HPC环境提供了企业级的工具、性能和扩展性。HPCS提供了完整而集成的集群环境，包括操作系统、作业调度、消息传递接口v2（Message Passing Interface v2，MPI2）支持、集群管理和监控。

Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008（HPCS），下一代高性能计算（HPC），为具有高度生产力的HPC环境提供了企业级的工具、性能和扩展性。HPCS提供了完整而集成的集群环境，包括操作系统、作业调度、消息传递接口v2（Message Passing Interface v2，MPI2）支持、集群管理和监控组件。以Windows Server® 2008 64位技术为基础，HPCS能够有效扩展到数千个处理内核，并提供管理控制台，用于主动监控和维护系统健康与稳定。作业调度的互操作性和灵活性能够实现 Windows和Linux的HPC平台之间的集成，并支持批量和面向服务架构（SOA）的工作。增强的生产力，可扩展的性能，以及易用性，使得 Windows HPC Server 2008成为Windows环境同类产品中的最佳产品。

Windows HPC Server 2008能够通过更轻松的部署和管理，帮助用户缩短实现HPC工作的时间。通过使用现有的Windows信息技术（IT）架构，HPCS简化了集群的管理、安全和存储，并提供桌面上的无缝访问。

HPCS 采用Windows Server 2008的Windows部署服务（Windows Deployment Services）技术，提供了改进的部署，更加快速的微软消息传递接口（Microsoft Message Passing Interface，MS-MPI）提供了新的NetworkDirect支持，先进的作业调度和基于Microsoft® System Center 2007用户界面（UI）的新管理接口，能支持Windows PowerShell™作为首选的脚本接口。

Windows HPC Server 2008同其他微软产品集成，有助于提高HPC的生产力并改进整体终端用户体验，包括与Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007和Windows Workflow Foundation的协作，以及与System Center 2007集成以获得改进的管理和效率，通过与Windows Communication Foundation（WCF）的集成，Windows HPC Server 2008允许开发人员采用SOA应用，实现HPC解决方案所提供的强大的并行计算能力。

HPCS使用Windows Server 2008企业版和Microsoft® SQL Server®的容错集群功能，提供HPC集群中头节点的高可用性和冗余性。

Windows HPC Server 2008包括2张DVD光盘，分别是Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition和Microsoft HPC Pack 2008。

Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition
第一张DVD包含专门用于HPC工作的64位Windows Server 2008版本的安装文件

Microsoft HPC Pack 2008
第二张DVD包含Microsoft HPC Pack 2008，提供以下接口、工具和管理架构：

系统管理
 基于System Center用户界面框架的管理控制台，与集群管理的各个方面相集成
 节点分组允许管理员针对计算机节点进行分类和批量操作
 监控热图允许快速查看集群状态
 使用Windows PowerShell和其他命令行工具，通过可编程脚本控制集群
 多个头节点的高可用性
 使用Windows部署服务提供改进的计算节点部署
 内置支持集群范围的更新
 内置系统诊断
 内置集群报告
 可扩展的报告，支持使用外部数据库工具，如SQL Server分析服务（Analysis Services），进行作业调度分析
 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack

作业调度
 与WCF集成，允许SOA应用开发人员实现HPC解决方案所提供的强大的并行计算能力
 作业调度支持按处理器内核、处理器插槽和计算节点细化
 大型集群的性能改进
 支持外部数据库用于作业调度
 新的作业调度策略
 作业调度的互操作性支持“开放网格论坛（Open Grid Forum）”的HPC“基本说明（Basic Profile）”接口

网络和MPI
 NetworkDirect，新的“远程直接内存访问（Remote Direct Memory Access，RDMA）”网络接口为运行在高速光纤上的MPI应用提供惊人的性能改进
 改进的“网络配置向导（Network Configuration Wizard）”
 为多核服务器提供新的共享内存MS-MPI实现
 同Event Tracing for Windows集成的MS-MPI

支持的操作系统： Windows Server 2008
CPU x64架构，采用Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology（EM64T）处理器架构的Intel Pentium或Xeon系列处理器；AMD Opteron系列处理器；AMD Phenom系列处理器；AMD Athlon 64系列处理器；与之兼容的处理器
内存512MB
支持多处理器的Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition和Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition，每服务器支持最多四个处理器，Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition支持每服务器八个处理器
最小磁盘安装空间50GB
磁盘分卷
单一系统分卷用于头节点和计算节点
支持独立磁盘冗余阵列（RAID），但不是必需
系统卷必须是主引导记录（Master Boot Record，MBR），其他分卷可以是MBR或GUID分区表（GPT）
网卡
至少需要一块网卡，如果使用私有网络，头节点需要至少两块网卡，计算节点至少需要一块网卡，每个节点还需要为一个应用网络配置一块高速网卡。

Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) provides enterprise-class tools, performance, & scalability for a highly productive HPC environment. HPCS provides a complete & integrated cluster environment including the OS, Job Scheduler, Message Passing Interface v2 (MPI2) support, cluster management & monitoring.

Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008 (HPCS), the next generation of high performance computing (HPC), provides enterprise-class tools, performance, and scalability for a highly productive HPC environment. HPCS provides a complete and integrated cluster environment including the operating system, a Job Scheduler, Message Passing Interface v2 (MPI2) support, and cluster management and monitoring components. Built on Windows Server® 2008 64-bit technology, HPCS can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and includes a management console that helps proactively monitor and maintain system health and stability. Job scheduling interoperability and flexibility enables integration between Windows and Linux-based HPC platforms, and supports batch and service-oriented architecture (SOA) workloads. Enhanced productivity, scalable performance, and ease of use are some of the features that make Windows HPC Server 2008 best-of-breed for Windows environments.

Windows HPC Server 2008 can help shorten user time-to-insight for HPC workloads through easier deployment and management. By using the existing Windows-based information technology (IT) infrastructure, HPCS simplifies management, security, and storage for the cluster, and provides seamless access from the desktop.

HPCS includes improved provisioning based on the Windows Server 2008 Windows Deployment Services technology, a faster Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MS-MPI) that includes new NetworkDirect support, an advanced Job Scheduler, and a new management interface built on the Microsoft® System Center 2007 user interface (UI), which has support for Windows PowerShell™ as a preferred scripting interface.
Windows HPC Server 2008 integrates with other Microsoft products to help increase HPC productivity and improve the overall end-user experience. This includes collaboration through Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and the Windows Workflow Foundation, as well as improved management and efficiency by integrating with System Center 2007. Through integration with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows HPC Server 2008 allows developers working with SOA applications to harness the power of parallel computing offered by HPC solutions.

HPCS uses the failover clustering capabilities of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and of Microsoft® SQL Server® to provide high availability and redundancy of the head node in your HPC cluster.

Windows HPC Server 2008 is a two-DVD package comprised of Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition and the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008.

Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition
The first DVD contains the setup for a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 that is restricted to an HPC workload

Microsoft HPC Pack 2008
The second DVD contains Microsoft HPC Pack 2008, which provides the additional interfaces, tools, and management infrastructure described below:

Systems Management
• The new Administration Console based on System Center UI framework integrates every aspect of cluster management.
• Node grouping allows administrators to categorize and batch operations on compute nodes.
• Monitoring heat map allows viewing cluster status at-a-glance.
• Scriptable control of cluster using Windows PowerShell and other command-line tools.
• High availability for multiple head nodes.
• Improved compute node provisioning using Windows Deployment Services.
• Built-in support for cluster-wide updating.
• Built-in system diagnostics.
• Built-in cluster reporting.
• Extensible reporting, allowing for job scheduling analysis using external database tools like SQL Server Analysis Services.
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack.
Job Scheduling
• Integration with WCF, allowing SOA application developers to harness the power of parallel computing offered by HPC solutions.
• Job scheduling granularity at processor core, processor socket, and compute node levels.
• Performance improvements for large clusters.
• Support for external databases for Job Scheduling.
• New job scheduling policies.
• Support for Open Grid Forum’s HPC Basic Profile interface for Job Scheduler interoperability.
Networking and MPI
• NetworkDirect, a new Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) network interface providing dramatic performance improvements for MPI applications running over high-speed fabrics.
• Improved Network Configuration Wizard.
• New shared memory MS-MPI implementation for multicore servers.
• MS-MPI integrated with Event Tracing for Windows.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008

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官方下载：
HPCEval.iso
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/a/6/ea63008a-3b99-48c0-82d0-abf48aaaa374/HPCEval.iso
SRVHPC_EN.iso
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/a/6/ea63008a-3b99-48c0-82d0-abf48aaaa374/SRVHPC_EN.iso