Are you doing clusters on Windows?
Come and spend a day with the users and developers of Microsoft Compute Cluster Server
On April 27, Microsoft is hosting the first UK user group for High productivity Computing using Microsoft's Compute Cluster
Server, Microsoft's cluster operating system. The day will feature presentations from users and developers, including the
Microsoft development team, Microsoft Research and meetings with key Microsoft executives. Users from engineering, finance, academia and manufacturing will be present.
Come and exchange experience and practices with your peers, and Microsoft.
This is being organised by the UK Microsoft HPC User Group, chaired by Professor Simon Cox, School of Engineering Sciences,
University of Southampton.
This is an excellent opportunity for networking among your peers. Several members of the CCS development team will be on hand to discuss their work and receive your feedback, first hand.
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We look forward to seeing you there!

08:30 Registration
09:15 Introductions
09:30 Windows Compute Cluster Server introduction
10:00
11:15
11:45
12:30
13:30
Tools, Technologies and Platforms for High Productivity Computing
10:30 Break
10:45 Monte Carlo calculations in finance
Clusters as Mainframes: Batch Processing
14:00 CFD and design optimisation on Compute Cluster
Server
14:30 Very Large Excel Clusters
15:00
Microsoft Roundtable
Lunch
Technical Computing at Microsoft
Break
15:30 CFD on CCS, TBD
16:00 Compute Cluster Futures
Organising Committee
Ryan Waite, John Vert
Group Program Manager for HPC,
Microsoft
Prof Simon Cox
University of Southampton
Prof Mike Giles
University of Oxford
Graham Twaddle,
Chief Architect,
Corporate Modelling
Hosted by Gordon Frazer,
Managing Director,
Microsoft UK.
Fabrizio Gagliardi
EMEA Director, Technical Computing
Microsoft
Prof Andy Keane
University of Southampton
Jeff Wierer,
Senior Product Manager,
Microsoft
TBD
Ryan Waite,
Group Program Manager for HPC,
Microsoft
Organising Committee 16:30 Close

John Vert is the Development Manager for High Performance Computing at Microsoft. John has been at
Microsoft for 6 months longer than Ryan. Before joining the HPC team, John spent ten years working in the
Windows kernel group on a wide variety of things, including a previous cluster product known as Microsoft
Cluster Server. John lives in Seattle with his family and likes to spend his spare time skiing in the Cascades.
Ryan Waite is the Group Program Manager for High Performance Computing at Microsoft. Ryan is responsible for the technical design and technical partnerships of the HPC team. Ryan has been at Microsoft for over 15 years, working in test, development, and program management roles on a variety of version 1.0 products including Exchange Server, Small Business Server, the Web Server Appliance, and for a change of pace,
Windows Mobile for Smartphones. Ryan’s passions involve simplifying complex tools for use by the general computing community: Small Business Server allowed small businesses to harness the same types of server technologies previously used solely by large corporations, and Compute Cluster Server is bringing cluster based supercomputing to scientists, researchers, and engineers that would have previously found setting up and using a cluster a daunting task. Ryan lives in Seattle and in his spare time enjoys sailing, drinking, and sometimes both at the same time.
Jeff Wierer is a Sr. Product Manager on the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 team focused on High
Performance Computing. Jeff joined Microsoft in 1998 as a Consultant within Microsoft Consulting Services.
Previous roles include being the Technical Product Manager for Exchange Server 2000, Sr. Technical Product
Manager working on the vision, strategy and requirements for BizTalk Server 2002, 2004 and 2006 and as a Sr.
Product Manager for Office SharePoint Server 2007.