Asian Options Service

This sample demonstrates how to create a WCF service that can run on Windows Azure compute nodes and how to create a client Excel application that starts a WCF service job.

Overview

The Asian Options sample is a solution containing a WCF service designed to run as a Windows HPC SOA application, a Microsoft Excel workbook that consumes the service, and a utility client application for creating and closing sessions. This sample demonstrates how to build, deploy, and execute an HPC SOA application that can run in Windows Azure and how to consume this type of application from a Microsoft Excel workbook.

The Microsoft Excel workbook demonstrates the interactive and durable session types of the HPC SOA application, which are used to call a WCF service that is deployed to the HPC cluster, whether it resides in an on-premises node or in a Windows Azure node.

Key Features

This sample demonstrates the following:

• Creation of an HPC-enabled WCF service.
• Deploying and configuring the WCF service in the cluster (both on-premises and in Windows Azure).
• Creation of a client HPC SOA application that calls the WCF service using the following session types:
  • Interactive session
  • Durable session