Supercomputing on Windows Clusters: Experience and Future Directions

Windows clusters offer many advantages for high-performance computing. The Concurrent Systems Architecture Group at UCSD and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have built a large Windows supercomputing cluster, with over 500 processors, 200GB of memory, and network bisections of greater than 240Gbps. This talk will describe the design, including the core cluster technologies (HPVM) and the NT Supercluster. It will cover the evaluation of this system and its performance on a wide variety of scientific applications.

Andrew A. Chien is the Chief Technical Officer of Entropia.com and the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His previous affiliations include the University of Illinois, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his research.