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Windows Cluster RCWINCLU.PARTNERS.ORG



This is a 10-node(40 cores), 64bit Windows 2008 HPC cluster. Please contact yxu11@partners.org for more information if you have questions.


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System, OS, Scheduler and Resource Management

Names Description and References
Headnode address RCWINCLU cluster: rcwinclu.partners.org
* How to request your account?
Access Methods

* Access RCWINCLU from your own windows machine
* Access RCWINCLU from ERIS Server "hpcwin"

You do NOT need to remote desktop to rcwinclu.partners.org in order to use the cluster. Please do NOT try to remote desktop to the cluster, it will be rejected

OS Windows HPC 2008 Server + HPC Pack
Default Shell Powershell
Public Shared Resource \\rcwinclu\public
User Home \\rcwinclu\$PartnersID
Cluster Software Windows HPC Pack
* HPC User Guide in Microsoft Technet


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HPC compilers. libraries supported in the windows cluster (same for hpcwin)


Programs
Names Description and References
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Path C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0
Microsoft IDE environment to compile VC++, C#, VB.NET, Office Macros, or others

(The development IDE is located at hpcwin.research.partners.org) How to compile and submit a simple batch job to the cluster
JDK 6 Path C:\Program Files\Java
Compile and run Java program
Active Perl Path \\rcwinclu\sharedApp\ActivePerl\bin\perl.exe
Compile and run Perl program
Microsoft MPI C/C++ development
Path for execution
C:\Program Files\Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 SDK\Bin\mpiexec

Path for library:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 SDK\Lib\amd64\msmpi.lib

Step-by-Step Instruction for Partners users:
How to compile and submit MPI C jobs on the cluster ?
Microsoft MPI.NET development for C#
Path for library
C:\Program Files (x86)\MPI.NET\Lib\MPI.Dll

Step-by-Step Instruction for Partners users:
How to compile and submit MPI NET on the cluster ?

Extra resource from MPI.NET home page maintained in Open Souce Lab, Indiana University http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/mpi.net/

Microsoft Cluster Scheduler API with C#
Path for library
C:\Program Files (x86)\MPI.NET\Lib\MPI.Dll

Step-by-Step Instruction for Partners users:
How to submit jobs with a program from the client

Extra resource from MPI.NET home page maintained in Open Souce Lab, Indiana University http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/mpi.net/




More details of scientific computing software will be published here very soon. For more information, please contact yxu11@partners.org

Windows GUI access
Names Address Description and References
Windows-Based Applications hpcwin.research.
partners.org
Providing windows GUI interface for users to retrieve data/results from cluster remotely. Application can be installed based on user's request