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Quick Deployment
Built-in wizards, tools, management consoles, and a To Do List help simplify the provisioning of compute nodes so that consistent system images can be created, modified, and deployed across a cluster.
Read the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Overview white paper.
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System Health Reporting
A comprehensive set of management, administration, and diagnostic tools scale to support larger clusters. The Heat Map provides at-a-glance views of cluster health, and helps to quickly identify and diagnose hardware, software, or network issues across the cluster.
Read more about Windows HPC Server 2008 System Management.
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Advanced Scheduling Options
A flexible job scheduler addresses both batch and newer service-oriented jobs, and can be deployed in concert with partner schedulers for additional advanced policies or mixed environments.
Read more about the Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler.
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Network and High-Speed Interconnects
A networking wizard and network diagnostics tools, plus simplified driver management, help to reduce the complexity of deploying multiple networks across a cluster, while use of NetworkDirect helps to achieve better performance and enable efficient CPU utilization.
Read the Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Overview white paper for more on Networking Architecture.
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Microsoft Ecosystem
Windows HPC Server 2008 takes advantage of the overall Microsoft ecosystem to improve the functionality, usability, and manageability of the cluster.
