Windows Azure HPC Scheduler

The Windows Azure HPC Scheduler includes modules and features that enable you to launch and manage high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other parallel workloads within a Windows Azure service. The scheduler supports parallel computational tasks such as parametric sweeps, Message Passing Interface (MPI) processes, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) requests across your computing resources in Windows Azure.

With the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK, developers can create Windows Azure deployments that support scalable, compute-intensive, parallel applications. This SDK provides the following features:

• Built-in job scheduling and resource management.
  
  
• Runtime support for MPI, SOA, and LINQ to HPC applications.
  
  
• Web-based job submission interfaces.
  
  
• Persistent state management of job queue and resource configuration.
  
  

Applications that are based on the APIs and job submission interfaces supported on-premises in Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 can use very similar interfaces in the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler.

Available Resources

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• Download the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler SDK.
  
  
• Download Windows Azure HPC Scheduler code samples.
  
  
• Read the Windows Azure Scheduler HPC SDK documentation.
  
  
• Download the Windows Azure SDK.
  
  
• Read the Windows Azure SDK Tools documentation.
  
  

Note
LINQ to HPC is a preview, not a production release. For more information, see the Windows HPC team blog.