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The Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK was designed to provide the tools and content necessary to write parallel applications for the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 platform. NOTE: This SDK has been superseded by the HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK w/ Service Pack 1 version, see 'Overview' for more information.

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  Note: This SDK has been superseded by the 'HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK with Service Pack 1' version.
  
  Applications made with this SDK will continue to function on clusters running HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP2, but will not make use of any new SP2-specific features. Applications made with the 'SP2' SDK will function on pre-SP2 clusters, but can not use any of the new SP2-specific features.
  This download is left up as a reference only. Please use the updated files.
  
  
  The Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK and its supplements are designed to provide the tools and content necessary to write parallel applications for the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 platform.
  The Development Kit consists of several components:
  • The Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK core package can be used to write client applications that interact with the job scheduler. Install this from sdk_x64.msi or sdk_x86.msi. You will need the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Client Utilities installed as well, those are available through the full HPC Pack 2008 R2 installer or through the Client Utilities redistributable available in the related downloads.
  • The sample code package provides a number of examples that to help you learn how to write applications that interact with or run on an HPC cluster. These supplemental files are available in HPC2008R2.SampleCode.zip
  • The NetworkDirect supplemental development kit provides code and tests to implement Windows drivers for NetworkDirect-enabled networking devices. This kit is available in NetworkDirect_DDK.zip
  • To develop MPI applications you need the HPC Pack 2008 R2 MS-MPI redistributable installer, available through the related downloads.
  
  
  For complete details on the SDK, visit the Microsoft High Performance Computing section of MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa496121.aspx

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
HPC2008R2.SampleCode.zip SHA1: eef7caebf9e7d4c711eecc5684b18021d702a908	1.67 MB
NetworkDirect_DDK.zip SHA1: 3669c1cf4bf1cbc4a4041355d687920d0b21d6f3	1.87 MB
sdk_x64.msi SHA1: ad2a8991edb00935ace6b0a130324b738185fd04	520 KB
sdk_x86.msi SHA1: d0e1f79b8f4d97204a2b2c92e1dfa7b9bc244d91	521 KB

• Minimum Hardware Required: At least one industry standard personal computer (either 32-bit or 64-bit) with at least 128MB RAM.

• Download the HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK with Service Pack 2