Why partner with Microsoft?

Streamlined application development and support
Windows HPC Server and Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform through Visual Studio together offer our ISV and application development partners an efficient development environment.  With choice of development languages, support for .NET framework, standard interfaces and parallel debuggers, support for 3rd party libraries, compilers and toolkits Visual Studio frees your resources to focus on innovation and building the HPC right applications for your customers.

Grow your business and capture new demand
• As enterprises seek a unified platform for HPC and other IT assets, a growing number of organizations are taking advantage of the complete Microsoft ecosystem including Active Directory, SQL Server, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Portal Server and System Center for HPC workloads.  Our SI and VAR partners can grow their business with larger HPC deal sizes and net new customer opportunities through this momentum.

• Technical Computing workstations running on Windows present green field for our partners to upgrade to parallel computing on cluster grade hardware along with services and application licensing opportunities.

• Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Suite enables engineers, analysts and researchers relying on Excel for complex and data intensive models to dramatically increase performance through HPC Services for Excel 2010. Millions of advanced Excel users will consume services of our SI and VAR partners in deployment and model adoption for parallel use.

• Small and medium size organizations new to HPC and parallelism prefer to start on the familiar Windows environment creating hardware, software and services opportunities for our partners.

• Learn more about why customers choose HPC Microsoft technology.

Define the future
With dedicated business development and account management teams, marketing programs and support and its worldwide presence, Microsoft is investing in success of its partners in HPC. Microsoft’s latest investment in Technical Computing coupled with our partner ecosystem creates a new category so that our partners as well as our customers can take advantage of parallelism from client to cluster to cloud.