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If you’ve been checking my blog in the last couple of weeks, you might have noticed I haven’t been posting much. In the past two months I have been traveling around the world, speaking in conferences and local user groups. So to sum up this intensive, fun times, here’s a list of all conferences I visited and links to all the material I showed. What’s new in WCF 4.5 Building scalable, low-latency web apps with Windows Azure Embracing HTTP with the ASP.NET Web API You can download the slides and code...
Early this week I had a session about building scalable, low-latency, secured web applications with Windows Azure. During the session, and despite all the network problems we had, I showed how to migrate an ASP.NET 4 MVC app to Windows Azure and incorporate the following features: Cloud services (compute) Storage CDNs Full IIS support Diagnostics ACS and claim-based identities with WIF SQL Azure Caching worker roles The demo code and the few slides I shown are available online at: http://sdrv.ms...
If you’ve been wondering where I disappeared to in the last couple of weeks, and if you are still waiting anxiously for my next post about WCF 4.5, fear not, I’m here, I’m alive, and I’m still kicking. It’s been quite a rough month, as I have been occupied knee deep in home renovations. If you’ve ever dealt with contractors, technicians, and handyman, you know the type of frustration I’m talking about. Between re-tiling my floors, replacing my kitchen cabinets, and re-painting my entire home, I also...
The Windows HPC with burst to Windows Azure training kit is a set of sample labs that demonstrate how to use Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 with Windows Azure to harness the power of Windows Azure compute nodes for the processing of high-performance computing (HPC) algorithms. The first training kit , which also included a white paper, was released on May 2011 and included several samples that demonstrated the features of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1. The updated training kit demonstrates the features...
Did you reach this post because you are a frequent reader of my blog? or did you get here because you are looking for the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 command called hpcpack? The hpcpack is a command that is used in Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 (SP1 currently) to create deployment packages that are installed in Azure worker nodes. With the hpcpack you can create a .zip file that contains the content you wish to deploy, upload the package to the Azure storage where all HPC application packages are stored...
Lately, I mentioned I would write about Windows HPC Server R2 SP1 and its integration with Windows Azure. Before we get to the basics of how to use the two together, take a look at the following image and answer the following questions (click image to enlarge): I’ve started one large Azure instance under my HPC cluster and ran it for 3 hours. Why do I see 12 computing hours (line 1)? Why are there an additional 6 computing hours (line 2) showing in my bill? How many storage transactions did...
I’ve written before about the white paper Yaniv and I have been writing for MSDN. I’m pleased to announce that the white paper has been published and can be downloaded from the Microsoft download website . I will continue posting on the subject of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and Windows Azure, as we continue to write demos for this environment, and (spoiler…) upgrading our white paper for the coming release of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP2. So if you’re interested in the integration of Windows HPC...
In the past couple of weeks, Yaniv and I have been working on a white paper for Microsoft regarding the integration of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Windows Azure. If you’re not familiar with HPC (High Performance Computing), and with the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, I suggest you start by looking at the Windows HPC Server 2008 website , and keep following Yaniv’s blog and mine, as we’ll write more about this subject in the coming weeks. For the entire explanation on how Windows HPC Server integrates...
Sometimes when you try to connect to your Azure storage account you might get the following error message: “Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.” Searching the Internet for the cause of the problem will probably lead you to check your Internet connection, the storage name and key, your Azure account ID etc… But there’s one thing that you should check first – your machine’s date and time !! Apparently, when...