As a followup for a story I wrote a couple weeks ago for HPCwire, Windows HPC Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 is out and ready for download. Phil Pennington’s blog post at MS has the details.
HPC Server 2008 RC1 out
July 3, 2008 by 
Industry Perspectives
HPC: Stop Scaling the Hard Way
…today’s situation is clear: HPC is struggling with reliability at scale. Well over 10 years ago, Google proved that commodity hardware was both cheaper and more effective for hyperscale processing when controlled by software-defined systems, yet the HPC market persists with its old-school, hardware-based paradigm. Perhaps this is due to prevailing industry momentum or working within the collective comfort zone of established practices. Either way, hardware-centric approaches to storage resiliency need to go.
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A good link to learn more about Windows HPC cluster is
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The_HPC_Show/
I’ve been doing a bit of research for grins.
Rich