Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

This is a pre-requisite to installing HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 2, which is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0fbdb867-c3ac-46c5-9311-98be0e461fc3

This service pack updates the HPC Pack 2008 R2 products listed in the 'System Requirements' section. It provides improved reliability as well as an enhanced feature set including:
Windows Azure integration - you can now add Azure nodes to your cluster!
Workstation Node idleness detection - you can now update Workstation Node availability templates to include user-activity and CPU-load thresholds.
Mark 'Critical' Tasks - you can now mark certain tasks as 'critical' and if they fail the entire job will be marked as 'failed.'

Note: This update does not support 'uninstallation.' Once installed attempting to remove it will completely remove the HPC Pack 2008 R2 software. We suggest initial testing be done on a non-production system, and that a system backup be performed prior to installing the service pack.

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 April 2023.

Files
HPC2008R2_SP1_x64.exe
HPC2008R2_SP1_x86.exe

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

An HPC Pack 2008 R2-based cluster including:
HPC Pack 2008 R2 Express, HPC Pack 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows HCP Server 2008 R2 Suite, HPC Pack 2008 R2 Client Utilities, HPC Pack 2008 R2 MS-MPI Redistributable

This service pack need to be run on all nodes and client machines.

Please refer to the documentation at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee783547(WS.10).aspx