Hi,<br>I just read about the windows CCS 2003, and wondering how to take advantage of it for video editing applications. For an application to take benefit of the cluster, does the apps need to be written and designed specifically,  by using the cluster API, etc?<br>Or can I install any apps I need (Adobe's application, for an instance) on the head node, and the CCS itself will be able to distribute the workload and processes to its cluster nodes? Thus any aplications can take advantage of the high performance cluster?<br>Thanks.<br><br><br> © 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:09:57 Zab0e04a5-4080-4da4-9e25-b63ec4d83d68http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcdevs/thread/ab0e04a5-4080-4da4-9e25-b63ec4d83d68#ab0e04a5-4080-4da4-9e25-b63ec4d83d68http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcdevs/thread/ab0e04a5-4080-4da4-9e25-b63ec4d83d68#ab0e04a5-4080-4da4-9e25-b63ec4d83d68wking10http://social.microsoft.com/Profile/en-US/?user=wking10Hi,<br>I just read about the windows CCS 2003, and wondering how to take advantage of it for video editing applications. For an application to take benefit of the cluster, does the apps need to be written and designed specifically,  by using the cluster API, etc?<br>Or can I install any apps I need (Adobe's application, for an instance) on the head node, and the CCS itself will be able to distribute the workload and processes to its cluster nodes? Thus any aplications can take advantage of the high performance cluster?<br>Thanks.<br><br><br> Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:46:02 Z2008-11-14T00:46:02Zhttp://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcdevs/thread/ab0e04a5-4080-4da4-9e25-b63ec4d83d68#d199d2bd-d8a0-40f1-89e6-c734f98c2ff8http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcdevs/thread/ab0e04a5-4080-4da4-9e25-b63ec4d83d68#d199d2bd-d8a0-40f1-89e6-c734f98c2ff8Don Patteehttp://social.microsoft.com/Profile/en-US/?user=Don%20PatteeApplications need to be written specifically to take advantage of a cluster. Check out the various info on <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/hpc">http://www.microsoft.com/hpc</a> for more information.Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:09:52 Z2009-06-25T02:09:52Z