Microsoft Monday said it would ship Windows HPC Server 2008 on Nov. 1 with designs on challenging Linux for supplying high-performance computers and specifically taking aim at ailing Wall Street ...

On Monday at the High Performance Computing Financial Markets conference in New York City, Microsoft unveiled Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, an update that comes with expanded modeling and simulation ...

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Several years ago, Microsoft made its first serious foray into the high performance computing market, offering Windows as an alternative operating system in the Linux-dominated space. When Microsoft ...

Microsoft this week announced two product betas of note for high-performance (HPC) computing professionals. Betas for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, as well as Excel 2010, are now available, according to ...

Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, launched Monday, has been optimized for 1,000 node, up from a previous limit of 256 nodes. Microsoft launched Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Monday at the High Performance ...

Microsoft this week made the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 available in order to give those interested an early preview. To grab the release, or if you just want to ...

Windows HPC, which scales to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools, is essentially the Windows Server platform for use in a ...

High performance computing (HPC) is traditionally considered the domain of large, purpose built machines running some *nix operating system (predominantly Linux in recent years). Windows is given ...

Windows is powering more than one out of every ten installed HPC clusters according to a survey, but the success of Microsoft is mainly being seen with low-end customers while IBM and HP dominate the ...

The release of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to manufacturing Friday will enable Microsoft to widen its lead over Linux, according to Microsoft executives. On Friday, Microsoft announced that it ...

Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it will deliver the high performance computing version of Windows Server 2003 that the company has been hinting at for several weeks. Windows Server 2003, HPC ...