On June 16th and June 17th, ScorpioTek delivered an intensive HPC training for IT professionals in Monterrey México at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Léon. The training was delivered by using a remote virtual lab infrastructure, so the on-site setup was minimal (basically a laptop and Internet connection).

We had the chance to work Gerardo, Susan, and Jesús – the IT masterminds make up part of the team that keep all the servers at UANL running smoothly. In 2 days we drilled down in the details needed for them to eventually start testing Windows HPC Server 2008 for an eventual deployment to support various departments. The plan is have a scalable infrastructure up and running to support research activity from grad students in various departments.

Since this was a small group, we quickly turned the training to a round table format, in which we had a constant discussion while touching very important topics when deciding how to setup an HPC cluster in Windows.

Working with them was great, they were a very hospitable and fun to work trio. The last day we delayed the training for a bit to watch México beat France 2-0 in the World Cup, which was a fun game to watch and definitely worth it!

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