Friday, 16 April 2010

Digging through the versions

One thing I enjoy about Windows HPC server (and previously CCS) is a good discussion on versions, naming and compatibility. It's a veritable cauldron of confusion!
Here's my quick naming and compatibility matrix for head nodes / compute nodes, hope it helps more than hinders :)

OS version along the top, HPC Pack version down the left.



Windows Server 2003 x64 Std / Ent Edition (+SP2; +R2)
Windows Server 2003 x64 HPC Edition (+SP2; +R2)
Windows Server 2008 Std / Ent Edition x64 (+SP2)
Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition x64 (+SP2)
Windows Server 2008 R2 Std / Ent Edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC Edition BETA
2003 Compute Cluster Pack (+SP1)
Head node
Compute nodes
Headnode
Compute nodes
 Not Supported
 Not Supported
 Not Supported
 Not Supported
2008 HPC Pack (+SP1)
 Not Supported
 Not Supported
Head node
Compute nodes
Head node
Compute nodes
 Not Supported
 Not Supported
2008 HPC Pack R2 BETA
 Not Supported
 Not Supported
Compute nodes only
Compute nodes only
Head node
Compute nodes
Head node
Compute nodes


There's more of this type of thing surrounding SDK and Client component versions, I'll post about that later...

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