Service Manual

6 Installation Guide
The recommended configurations for the compute nodes are:
• Ensuring that PXE is enabled on the primary network interface card (NIC 1).
• Ensuring that the boot order has the primary network interface before the
local hard drive.
Figure 1. Example of a Topology With Nodes Running HPC Server 2008 R2
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 is supported on the following AMD-based
systems, storage, and network devices:
• PowerEdge R715 system as the head node and PowerEdge R415, R715, and
R815 systems as the compute nodes.
• Embedded Broadcom network devices as both the public interface and the
cluster interconnect.
public network
head node
compute nodes
private network
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