What is the best version of Windows to use in a cluster, Windows XP, Windows 7, or Windows HPC Server 2008. Or if there is another one let me know.
Windows breaks like glass but if you must I'd go with whatever is the latest Windows Server Edition.
Short video showing Windows HPC Server 2008 & Visualizing MPI traces with Vampir on a Cray CX1
Short video that shows Fluent running on WIndows HPC Server 2008
SC08: PGI Rep discusses & demos PVF, integrated into Visual Studio, parallelization, MPI, OpenMP, etc.
IPython (ipython.scipy.org) enables parallel computations to be performed interactively. IPython parallel jobs can now be started using Windows ...
CCP upgrading server infrastructure to Windows HPC 2008 for EvE Online and future developments.