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

This service pack updates the HPC Pack 2012 products. It provides improved reliability, supportablity, as well as an enhanced feature set on Windows Azure integration, job scheduling, and cluster management.

• This service pack updates the HPC Pack 2012 products. It provides improved reliability, supportablity, as well as an enhanced feature set on Windows Azure integration, job scheduling, and cluster management. For complete information on "what's new" in this release please refer to the documentation at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=320536, and for important information that you should read prior to installing HPC Pack 2012 Service Pack 1 please see the Release Notes
  
  In the 'Downloads' section you will see three files. You may choose one to download based on the following information
  
  • HPCPack2012SP1-Update-amd64.exe / HPCPack2012SP1-Update-i386.exe : Download the files to obtain the updater for use on your exisiting HPC Pack 2012 head nodes, compute nodes, broker nodes, and x64-based clients and workstation/cycle harvesting nodes. It also contains the Web Components (REST and Web Portal), Azure VM, and KSP ('soft card') installers necessary to use those features. Please install this updater on the computers that have already had HPC Pack 2012 components installed.
  • HPCPack2012SP1-Full.zip : Download this .zip file to have a full installation package to setup an HPC Pack 2012 Service Pack 1 cluster. Please uninstall existing HPC Pack 2012 components to install this package.
  
  
  

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
HPCPack2012SP1-Full.zip SHA1: 205093394aab9ce70217dd046cf35a07c5dd294b	666.85 MB
HPCPack2012SP1-Update-amd64.exe SHA1: 2b53088bf78d4226c625edf40fe6913ac6b83d5b	245.06 MB
HPCPack2012SP1-Update-i386.exe SHA1: 003311599cccc925b078d123d57f2d8bc65e37b4	244.48 MB

• The following system requirements apply to both a full installation of HPC Pack 2012 Service Pack 1 and installing it as an update on an existing HPC Pack 2012 cluster.
  
  HPC Pack 2012 supported Operating Systems
• Head nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
• Compute nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard, Datacenter, or x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, or HPC Edition
• Broker nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard or Datacenter
• Workstation nodes: x86 or x64 versions of Windows 7 Professional or Enterprise, Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise
• Unmanaged server nodes: Windows Server 2012 Standard, Datacenter, or Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, or HPC Edition


Additional notes:
CPU: x64 architecture computer, except for Workstation nodes which may run x86-based or x64-based processors
RAM: 1 GB
Multiprocessor support: HPC Pack 2012 can address up to 64 cores on a single machine, if the operating system supports it.
Minimum disk space for setup: 50 GB
Network interface card: At least one network interface card (NIC) is required. Additional NICs may be required depending on the selected network topology

• This service pack needs to be run on all nodes and client machines.
  
  Please refer to the documentation at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=320537