Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit version 1.6

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Windows HPC Server with Burst to Azure is ideal for compute intensive applications that demand 1000s of Cores. The HPC/Azure hybrid solution allows both novice users and skilled developers to quickly deploy their existing windows binary executable, HPC SOA code, or MPI-based HPC code. The HPC job scheduler automatically batch scales your code by allowing cloud nodes to be added to an on-premise head node. These comprehensive samples should get your Windows/non-Windows users up and running quickly on Azure for their compute-intensive workload needs.

Download: Windows HPC with Windows Azure burst training kit to version 1.6. 

The offline installer along with a paper:  Windows HPC with Burst to Windows Azure: Application Models and Data Considerations 

Samples include:

1. Parametric sweeps

    1. CPU spinner
    2. Image rendering on Renderman format files (Console client) - Updated!
    3. Image rendering on Renderman files (Windows Phone 7 client) - New!
    4. BLAST on Azure! - New!

2. SOA

    1. Square Service
    2. Asian Options service using VSTO and Excel
    3. Word-association service using SQL Azure - New!

3. Message Passing Interface (MPI)

    1. Pi (π) Calculator - New!
    2. Tachyon ray-tracing - New!

4. Excel offloading

  • Asian Options UDF -- an UDF implementation of sample 2b.