Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 SDK and HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK

Purpose

Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 provide 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 Windows HPC Server 2008 servers. You can use the Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK to schedule jobs on Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 servers. You cannot use these SDKs to schedule jobs on Microsoft Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS). For information on the SDK for CCS, see Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack.

The following HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK downloads are available:

• HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK with SP4 and code samples
• HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK with SP3 and code samples
• HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK with SP2 and code samples
• HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK with SP1 and code samples
• HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK and code samples

The following HPC Pack 2008 SDK downloads are available:

• HPC Pack 2008 SDK with SP2

For information about IT pro documentation for Windows HPC Server 2008 and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, see Windows HPC Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=119594). 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++, Fortran, 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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Build date: 7/27/2012