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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. The zip files are subject to the license terms for the SDK.

• Note: HPC Pack 2008 R2 has been superceeded by HPC Pack 2012. The updated SDK is available on the HPC Pack 2012 SDK page.
  
  
  The Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2 SDK with Service Pack 4, 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:
  • Required: 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. This updated SP3 SDK supports new features available with HPC Pack 2008 R2 SP4-based clusters. Applications built with this SDK will work on pre-SP4 clusters as long as they do not use new SP4-specific features.
  • Files: sdk_x64.msi, sdk_x86.msi
  • Optional: The main 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.
  • Files: HPC2008R2.SampleCode.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: 40a09e1468d2ef50957457376b5e1c0e404391eb	4.50 MB
sdk_x64.msi SHA1: fc380430129bc3a76a756f3f0023d365308e1bcf	599 KB
sdk_x86.msi SHA1: ef8b93b1a5791c55f2851f320db7af3ec1dc4890	599 KB

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

• 1) Download the appropriate SDK msi installer(s) on to your workstation based on processor architecture, run it, and the installer will walk you through the setup process.
  2) If you are developing applications that interact with the job scheduler you will also need to install the HPC Pack 2008 R2 Client utilities.
  3) (optional) Download any of the supplements / sample code archives and extract the contents of the zip file to your hard drive.
  4) (optional) If you are developing MPI applications you will also need to install the HPC Pack 2008 R2 MS-MPI redistributable.