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Read the press release | Dawning Chooses Windows HPC Server 2008 over Linux Austin, TX (November 18, 2008) Today at the Supercomputing 2008 conference, Microsoft Corp. debuted in the top 10 of the world’s most powerful supercomputers with Shanghai Supercomputer Center and Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd.
Military Space & Missile Forum (March 9, 2009)a.i. solutions configured its COTS FreeFlyer to perform in a clustered, high performance computing (HPC) environment. Using Microsoft Windows HPC solutions, FreeFlyer and 10 clustered computers, a 20-year analysis was completed in less than three days—and showed the satellite debris will continue to remain a threat to NASA’s ESC in the near future.“The cluster we used, given the hardware available, accelerated computation by about eight times. More hardware would increase this. So if the same computations were executed on a single PC, it would have taken about 24 days,” said David Rand, systems engineer.
Aero News TV (January 14, 2009)“It is important to be able to apply a variety of techniques in order to accurately solve challenging problems such as a helicopter interacting with a ship air wake,” said Dr. Kenji Takeda, senior lecturer in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton. “Improvements in price/performance of technologies such as Microsoft ESP and Windows HPC Server 2008 are helping to make such breakthroughs possible.”
Express Computing (December 15, 2008)Kyril Faeov, General Manager, Windows HPC, Microsoft Corporation talks with Akhtar Pasha of Express Computing, India's only IT business weekly, about how HPCS handles HPC workloads better in a clustered environment with one integrated management console to expedite application deployment.
Computing (December 4, 2008)
The introduction of HPC to support the bank's global derivatives infrastructure has been accelerated as it faced increasing pressure to simulate a growing number of risk scenarios, said Ricky Higgins, IT director in the products and markets group at Lloyds TSB corporate markets division.
"The determining reason to introduce a high-performance environment was the need to add scale to the [derivatives] platform and rapidly bring new products to market," he told Computing.
EE|Times (December 3, 2008)Reed predicts hybrid processors will emerge during the transition. They will include a mix of a few large, out-of-order execution cores to handle existing serial code as well many small in-order cores to handle parallel tasks.
Austin, TX (November 17, 2008) Microsoft has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2008 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC08), in Austin, Texas. Diane Lieberman, publisher of HPCwire, revealed the list of winners at the HPCwire booth at the event being held at the Austin Convention Center. Microsoft was recognized with the following honor(s):
Editors' Choice Best HPC Software Product or Technology: Windows HPC Server
Editors' Choice Top 5 Vendors to Watch in 2009
Editors' Choice Best HPC Collaborations between Government and Industry: Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers - University of Calif., Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp
Carl Claunch, Vice-President and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Gartner (October 29, 2008)When should enterprises install Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 as the operating system for their computer clusters? Find more here.
Newly emergent applications are often built for the Windows environment and are easier to transition to a Windows-based cluster than a Linux-based setup.
Most implementations of Windows in computing clusters establish an alternative mode for some work and are not deployed to displace Linux entirely.
Maranello, Italy, (October 15, 2008) Two of the most dynamic, high-performance companies in the world joined forces today when Ferrari SpA decided to use Microsoft Corp.'s newest high-performance computing (HPC) technology to push the boundaries of automotive engineering, design and development.
CAD CAM News (October 15, 2008)
"With Windows HPC Server 2008, Microsoft has made huge advancements in performance and scaling that give users of realistic simulation solutions more IT flexibility,” stated Brian Kucic, VP of Business Development for R Systems. “Using the analysis model provided by Dana and the same 32-node compute cluster, we evaluated the performance of Abaqus FEA software on both Linux and Windows. Switching between the two operating systems was straightforward and the performance of Windows HPC Server 2008 was highly competitive."
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