Microsoft HPC Pack 2016 Update 2

HPC Pack 2016 Update 2 delivers tools, performance and scalability for a highly productive HPC environment for on-premises, hybrid and cloud, providing an integrated cluster environment featuring the HPC Job Scheduler, Message Passing Interface v2 (MPI2) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) interactive application support, cluster management & monitoring tools.

You can download and install HPC Pack 2016 Update 2 in your on-premises computers, or you can just use the deployment templates to create a cluster on Azure with HPC Pack 2016 Update 2.
The following downloads available:

• HPCPack2016Update2-Full-v6277.zip Download this .zip file for a full installation package to set up an HPC Pack 2016 Update 2 cluster. If you install this package on an existing HPC Pack node, please uninstall existing HPC Pack 2016 components first.
• HPCPack2016Update2-Patch.zip Download this patch to upgrade your exisiting HPC Pack 2016 Update 1 head nodes, Windows and Linux compute nodes, broker nodes, client computers, workstation nodes, and unmanaged server nodes. Please install the appropriate updater for the CPU architecture on computers that have already had HPC Pack 2016 Update 1 components installed.
• Lizard_x64.msi Lizard helps you to determine the computational performance and efficiency that can be achieved by your HPC Pack cluster. It calculates and reports a peak performance value for your HPC cluster in billions of floating-point operations per second (GFLOPS), and a percentage value for the efficiency that was achieved at peak performance. After running Lizard, you can review the performance and efficiency results that were obtained, and optionally save these results and the parameters that were used to achieve them to a file on your computer. Note: This utility includes parts of the Intel Math Kernel Library.

Following QFE/fixes are available for HPC Pack 2016 Update 2, please patching accordingly

• QFE KB4481650
  

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

HPC Pack 2016 Update 2 supported Operating Systems
• Head nodes: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2
• Compute nodes: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, or x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Broker nodes: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012
• Workstation nodes: x86 or x64 versions of Windows 8.1 Pro or Enterprise, windows 10
• Unmanaged server nodes: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, or x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Linux Compute nodes: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, CentOS-based 6.7/7.3, Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS
• Client: Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 SP1


Additional notes: CPU: x64 architecture computer, except for Workstation nodes which may run x86-based or x64-based processors
RAM: 4GB
Minimum disk space for setup: 50 GB
Network interface card: At least one network interface card (NIC) is required. Additional NICs may be required depending on the selected network topology