HP-MPI Version 2.0 for Windows Release Note

3 Installation Requirements

HP-MPI V2.0 for Windows is supported on the following Microsoft operating systems:

• 32-bit or 64-bit HPC Server 2008 (HPCS)/Server 2003/Vista

• 32-bit or 64-bit XP

On Windows 2008, all systems which will be used to run or submit HP-MPI jobs must be members

of the same active directory domain. You must install and start the HP-MPI Remote Launch

service to run on all Windows 2008 systems except Windows HPC Server 2008. The service is

not required to run in SMP (single system) mode.

You must install the correct HP-MPI product for your system.

HP-MPI V2.0 for Windows must be installed as Administrator.

HP-MPI requires a minimum of 50 MB of disk space in C:\Program Files (x86).