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 ...

"Cloud computing" is so attractive: it enables enterprises to outsource their IT by offloading their logic onto third parties' bigger hosts and save costs. But if businesses could own their logic and ...

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 ...

Windows HPC Server now integrates with Excel workbooks and harnesses the power of idle Windows 7 desktops. Microsoft made its latest Windows HPC Server software available Monday, saying new features ...

Demonstrating it can indeed rename a product with something that sounds pleasing and not so euphemistic, Microsoft took the wraps off its replacement for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 this ...

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 ...

Anyone looking for proof that Microsoft Windows High Performance Server 2008 is emerging as a powerful platform for realistic simulation should consider this new benchmark done in cooperation with ...

HPC Server 2008 R2 will let customers connect their systems to Windows Azure, providing on-demand scale and capacity for high performance computing apps Windows HPC Server customers will soon be able ...

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said that it plans to release at the end of the month another beta of its Windows HPC Server 2008 and that the final version will ship by year’s end. The beta is the first ...

Microsoft’s quest to make a name for itself in the high-performance computing world took a step forward this week with a new beta version of Windows HPC Server that Microsoft says will improve ...

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