Fuelling productivity and innovation with integration between SharePoint and Windows HPC Server

1. Fuelling productivity and innovation with integration between SharePoint and Windows HPC Server

2. What does HPC Provide? Simulate and collaborate for a go/no-go decision Make Decisions Understand variances and drill to detail to find trends Find Inefficiencies Know your cost structure and take action to ensure you hit the bottom line Save Money Focus resources where it really matters Gain Insights

3. HPC Requires Collaboration Analysis & Modeling Design & Optimization Testing & Simulation Discovery & Goal Setting Design Model Simulate Analyze

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5. What we’re hearing Domain Experts Developer Administrators The domain experts are demanding of us a collaborative platform to manage their models, data and jobs. But it is hard to integrate with scientific applications. It slows me down when I have to switch between dissimilar tools with disconnected interfaces for job management, data management and collaboration. It is time consuming and costly to support installing and maintaining my users multiple client applications necessary for HPC Challenges I want to extend our SharePoint Portal to satisfy the domain experts intellectual property management and HPC collaboration needs Need a simple, consistent and collaborative way to interact and manage my models, data and results for my team I want to reduce support costs by centrally managing security, version control and deployment Needs With the SharePoint and HPC Server 2008 solution, support costs are reduced by providing a centralized web interface for job submission and management, eliminating the complexity of maintaining multiple tools. The combination of a SharePoint Portal with Windows HPC Server helps manage my team's HPC jobs while benefiting from the collaboration, information management and workflow capabilities. The SharePoint Integration Sample for Windows HPC allows customization to create applications specific web parts integrating HPC Server 2008, SharePoint Server and other existing infrastructure. Microsoft Approach

6. SharePoint & HPC Summary Fuelling productivity and innovation with integration between SharePoint and Windows HPC Server Windows HPC Pack 2008 - SharePoint Integration Sample provides: • Easy to use Web based interface to manage Windows HPC Server jobs integrated into a SharePoint based enterprise portal • Source code of the solution allowing developers to further customize the solution • Ability to centrally manage, secure, support, and enhance the experience of the Windows HPC Server 2008 users

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