HP BladeSystem specification for Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
This white paper provides a general specification for an HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure that can support and scale out a small-to-medium sized cluster for Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS).
CCS is Microsoft’s entry into the fast-growing High Performance Computing (HPC) market, where solutions are often deployed as clusters of relatively small servers working in parallel to solve intensive computation and mathematical problems. HPC clusters are often utilized in the development and application of complex data models used in computer-aided engineering, finance, life and materials science, scientific research, and other areas.
The specification includes an overview of solution components and usage scenarios, and outlines key benefits that can be achieved by deploying this solution on an HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure. Guidelines are provided for planning and implementing a CCS solution. In addition, the paper presents Bills of Material for sample configurations along with links to information that can assist the customer over the solution lifecycle.
Target audience: The intended audience includes solutions architects and technical consultants wishing to learn more about deploying CCS on an HP BladeSystem c-Class infrastructure.
The paper is not intended to teach you about CCS or the deployment of applications on top of CCS. Indeed, knowledge of CCS concepts is assumed, as is familiarity with networking topologies and the concept of head and compute nodes within a cluster.
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