A Compact Computing Environment for a Windows Cluster: Giving Hints and Assisting Job Execution

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 [1] (hereafter Windows CCS) has been focused to build and utilize a PC cluster with high availability and a Windows graphical user interface (GUI). The Windows CCS consists of an operating system and an add-on software toolkit. The former is Windows Server 2003, Compute Cluster Edition and the latter is Compute Cluster Pack. The Compute Cluster Pack provides many useful software tools such as a well-tuned MPI [2] library named MS-MPI [1] and a job scheduler.