I'm a research student and I want to build a windows cluster at home with my laptops to test my parallel codes.
The problem is I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium, not a server edition.
I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and I installed Microsoft HPC Packs with SP1 and able to simulate MPI codes at my localhost without a problem. Now I want to see the real application.
I have 3 other laptops at home and windows 7 starter is installed on them. They don't have visual studio installed because I have only 1 license from the university.
So is there any way to build a windows cluster with these configurations??
No, a Windows cluster will only work with Windows Server Enterprise or above.
To simulate this a good way is to host Windows Server operating systems on virtual machines. A good resource for this is here.
You do need Windows Server licenses to do this, however -- if you have an MSDN subscription you may find that you can get development licenses under that.