Purpose

Microsoft HPC Server 2008 (HPC) provides secure, scalable cluster resource management, a job scheduler, and a Message Passing Interface (MPI) stack for parallel programming. This document provides details for writing client applications that interact with the job scheduler. For information about MPI, see Microsoft MPI.

You can use the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 SDK to schedule jobs on Microsoft HPC Server 2008 and later servers. For information about how to download the HPC Pack 2008 SDK, see Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 SDK. You cannot use this SDK to schedule jobs on Microsoft Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS). For information on the SDK for CCS, see Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack.

For information about IT pro documentation for Windows HPC Server 2008, see the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=119223). For information about IT pro Technical Reference documentation for Windows HPC Server 2008, see the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Reference (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=149656)

Developer Audience

HPC is designed for C, C++, and .NET developers and those writing scripts.

Run-Time Requirements

To run an application that uses the HPC SDK, the computer must have the HPC Pack Client Utilities installed.

For information about run-time requirements for a particular programming element, see the Requirements section of the reference page for that element.

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