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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 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 today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system. The company is hoping ...

From the “Say What!?” files, Microsoft recently added some interesting features to the latest beta release of Windows HPC Server 2008 [version R2]. Why say you this? Well, according to the source ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows HPC Server 2008, which scales to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools, is essentially the Windows Server platform ...