Microsoft High Performance Computing for Developers

Updated: December 10, 2014

The MSDN Library for Microsoft High Performance Computing provides API references and guides that help you create applications that interact with the HPC Job Scheduler Service in Microsoft HPC Pack (Windows HPC Server). You can also use the information in the library to create service-oriented architecture (SOA) services and client applications, as well as custom diagnostic tests and reports about a Windows HPC cluster.

The MSDN Library for Microsoft High Performance Computing

• Microsoft HPC Pack SDKs
• Microsoft MPI
• Network Direct SPI
• HPC Class Library
• CCP Class Library
• HPC Web Service API Reference
• Microsoft HPC Debugger Tool Pack
• Technical Articles

Recent HPC Pack SDK downloads

• HPC Pack 2012 R2 Update 1 SDK
• HPC Pack 2012 SDK with SP1

Getting started

• Download Microsoft HPC Pack software
  HPC Pack includes HPC cluster management tools, a job scheduler, HPC Services for Excel, Message Passing Interface (MS-MPI), the ability to join workstation nodes and unmanaged servers to the cluster, integration with Azure to deploy compute resources in the cloud, and the client utilities.
• Microsoft HPC Pack documentation on the TechNet Library
  Information about evaluating and managing HPC Pack clusters.

Development guides

• Diagnostics Extensibility in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Step-by-Step Guide
• Reporting Extensibility in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Guide
• Accelerating Excel 2010 with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2:
  • Converting Cluster-Safe UDFs for Offloading to a Windows HPC Cluster
  • Building VBA Applications and Workbooks for a Windows HPC Cluster
  • Building .NET Applications That Run Excel Calculations on a Windows HPC Cluster
  • Building Custom Clients and Services