Windows HPC 2012 - System Requirements
Operating system and software
HPC Pack 2012 has an updated set of requirements for operating system and other prerequisite software.
| Role | Operating system requirement |
Head node | Windows Server® 2012 | Note |
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| Windows Server® 2008 R2 is no longer supported. |
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Compute node | Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Note |
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| Windows Server® 2008 is no longer supported. |
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WCF broker node | Windows Server 2012 | Note |
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| Windows Server 2008 R2 is no longer supported. |
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Workstation node | Windows® 8, Windows® 7 |
Unmanaged server node | Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Note |
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| Windows Server 2008 is no longer supported. |
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Windows Azure node | Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 |
Client (compute with only client utilities installed) | Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server® 2008, Windows Vista® |
Software Requirements
HPC Pack 2012 also has updated the requirements for software in addition to the operating system as follows:
HPC Pack 2012 requires and supports Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012 to manage the HPC cluster databases. HPC Pack 2012 no longer supports SQL Server 2008.
HPC Pack 2012 supports Microsoft® .NET Framework 4. SQL Serve® 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012 installation still requires .NET Framework 3.5.
