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 customers.
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 customers.
At the High Performance on Wall Street conference, Microsofts high performance computing honcho, Bill Laing announced Windows HPC Server 2008. Microsofts goal is to take HPC mainstream and make Windows an alternative to Linux and Unix for HPC customers, particularly in the financial sector.
- NEW YORK Underscoring the importance of the financial sector in the push to take high performance computing mainstream, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of its latest entry into the HPC arena, Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, at the High Performance on Wall Street conference here…
This may seem like a weird time to go to Wall Street to announce a new operating system, but that's what Microsoft did Monday. At a technology conference in New York, the software vendor formally detailed its Windows HPC Server 2008 software, a high-performance computing version of Windows offering some features that may appeal to bailout-seeking financial services firms.
