SunGuard (January 7, 2009)
“Microsoft is pleased to be working with SunGard in the development of its next generation actuarial modelling solution. Windows HPC Server 2008S delivers the ability to spread calculations across a large number of computers using industry standard tools that are well understood and easily integrated into the IT environments of SunGard and other members of the insurance industry,” said Gordon Ejsmond-Frey, insurance industry director, Microsoft EMEA. “As demands increase for faster, more flexible and robust risk modelling solutions, SunGard is investing in delivering enterprise- class modelling with iWorks Prophet, which will help insurers to improve their modelling and reporting capabilities.”
People's Daily (January 7, 2009)
The Dawning 5000A Super Computer, powered with Windows HPC Server 2008, made it to top 10 fastest computer in the world with a peak performance of 180 Tera Flops and theoretical performance of 233.47 Tera Flops in the latest Top500 list. China has become the second country following the U.S. to possess the capability of developing such system in the world.
Express Computing (December 15, 2008)
Kyril Faenov, 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.
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.
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
By 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? Key findings:
Newly emergent applications are often built for the Windows environment and are easierto transition to a Windows-based cluster than a Linux-based setup.
Editors' Choice Top 5 Vendors to Watch in 2009
Most implementations of Windows in computing clusters establish an alternative mode for some work and are not deployed to displace Linux entirely.
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."
Info-Tech Research Group (October 2, 2008)
High performance computing (HPC) has been primarily used by academic and research facilities. With Microsoft’s introduction of its Windows HPC Server 2008, some of the limitations of prior generations of HPC solutions are being removed. HPC is becoming accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Microsoft PressPass (September 22, 2008)
Windows HPC Server 2008 allows Wall Street firms to deploy quickly, leverage existing resources, and scale from workstation to cluster — all in a familiar Windows environment.
New York City, New York (September 22, 2008)
Watch the video.
Inside HPC (September 16, 2008)
The Wall Street Journal (September 16, 2008)
Cray Inc., a name long linked to some of the world's biggest computers, is breaking from tradition and introducing a low-end machine that can sit next to a user's desk.
Mellanox Press Release (September 16, 2008)
Cray, Inc. Press Release (September 16, 2008)
Cray CX1 supercomputer with Windows HPC Server 2008 And Intel Xeon Processors starts at $25,000 and provides "Ease-of-Everything" for new users of HPC.
“Cray sees Microsoft Windows becoming an increasingly important force in the HPC market," said Ian Miller, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Cray. "With the Cray CX1 high productivity system and Windows HPC Server 2008, we’re bringing the power of Cray supercomputing to a much wider range of new users with an affordable and adaptable system that provides incredible value and is easy to install, program and use with a broad array of applications from independent software vendors (ISVs).”
IT World (September 16, 2008)
MarketWatch.com (August 25, 2008)
Windows in Financial Services (Summer 2008)
“High Performance Computing—or as it is increasingly called, High-Productivity Computing—continues to drive innovation and profits for a wide range of industries. Today, technological evolution is driving HPC in new directions with non-traditional “Edge HPC” applications. Wall Street firms are increasingly seeking to improve productivity with both traditional and Edge HPC...”
Microsoft (Summer 2008)
IT Week (June 19, 2008)
Microsoft PressPass (June 18, 2008)
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Network World (June 18, 2008)
IBM Press Release (June 17, 2008)
Computerworld (June 16, 2008)
Microsoft PressPass (June 11, 2008)
Application Development Trends (June 11, 2008)
NetEffect.com (June 10, 2008)
eWeek (May 22, 2008)
Towers Perrin Press Release (May 21, 2008)
Windows Server Division Weblog (May 17, 2008)
Rechen-und Kommunikationszentrum (April 4, 2008)
Windows IT Pro (April 4, 2008)
The Vancouver Sun (February 15, 2008)
DELL POWER SOLUTIONS (February 2008)
TechNet Magazine (February 2008)
Business Wire (January 9, 2008)
