Windows CCS Partner Quote Sheet
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AMD
“AMD64 technology is at the core of many of the world's most powerful computers including HPC clusters running Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 at the University of Stuttgart/HLRS, CASPUR and AREVA-Challenge. AMD64-based clusters running Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 deliver performance to help our customers accelerate time-to-insight while providing a reliable platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate.”
-- Terri L. Hall, Vice President, Software Alliances, AMD
Broadcom
“Broadcom's NetXtreme II C-NIC products support the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 platform by providing RDMA networking that interfaces to Microsoft's Winsock Direct API. Broadcom and Microsoft have closely collaborated to enable RDMA over standard Ethernet networks. The combination of Broadcom's high volume C-NICs featuring integrated RDMA, with the familiarity and ease-of-use of the Windows platform, can lower the barriers and accelerate deployment of RDMA into the existing IT infrastructure.”
-- Greg Young, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s High-Speed Controller Line of Business
Consorzio Operativo Gruppo MPS
“The banking group at Consorzio Operativo Gruppo MPS is currently evaluating Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, with the help of Microsoft and Avanade, to implement financial Monte Carlo simulations. We believe that Microsoft technology presents clear advantages in terms of implementation and skills utilization. Windows Compute Cluster Server will provide us with a better integration with the existing Windows infrastructure; moreover, the familiar environment of development allows our developers to write parallel applications in the frame of Visual Studio 2005. We believe that this will allow us to reduce the total cost of ownership for high-performance computing solutions that drive news discoveries and breakthroughs.”
-- Piero Poccianti, Head of Planning and Strategic Development at Consorzio Operativo Gruppo MPS
Dell
“More and more mainstream customers are looking to Dell to help them deploy supercomputers, from personal desk side clusters, to large-scale deployments in datacenters. Dell has put extensive effort behind making the deployment of clusters less complex and reducing time-to-productivity. Our leadership and understanding of the customer together with Windows Compute Cluster Server will further drive simplified deployment with easy integration in existing Windows environments.”
-- Reza Rooholamini, Director of Global Solutions Engineering at Dell
Fluent
"Microsoft and Fluent have worked closely with one another to ensure a robust and complete solution for 64-bit cluster computing using FLUENT on Windows CCS. Many Fluent customers are already using Windows, and an easily deployed cluster solution that integrates with their current environment and skill-set allows them to increase the value they derive from simulation. With 64-bit, more detailed simulation models and more accurate results are now practical on Windows-based systems. In addition, FLUENT shows great scaling on clusters using Windows CCS, so customers can dramatically reduce the time spent waiting for engineering insight. The result is a more effective use of simulation, leading to improved products and reduced engineering costs."
-- Ferit Boysan, Vice President and General Manager at ANSYS, Inc., the Parent Company of Fluent, Inc.
HP
“There has been a tremendous growth of the industry standard-based clusters in the High Performance Computing market for the past several years, and HP has been fortunate to lead this trend. Windows CCS enables customers who have standardized on, or most familiar with, Windows to experience the benefits of clusters. We will offer Windows CCS as part of the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio, and will make available our industry leading HP-MPI product on Windows CCS.”
-- Bruce Toal, Marketing Director of High Performance Computing Division, HP
IDC
“End users rank systems management and the complexity of implementing parallel applications as two of the top challenges to cluster use. We believe that the combination of strong absolute performance, and affordable entry level price points of clusters is enabling a new class of users to apply computational solutions of their engineering design, and scientific research problems. We see robust and well integrated systems and applications software environments as enabling this next wave in the HPTC market.”
-- Earl Joseph, Vice President, Technical Computing Systems, IDC
Intel
"This impressive installation at NCSA highlights the performance and scalability achievable by combining Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 with Intel® Xeon® processors. We’re working with Microsoft to provide a robust set of resources including 64-bit hardware, software and tools, and joint on-site engineering assistance to strategic software vendors for accelerating the expansion of HPC beyond traditional supercomputing centers."
-- Jason Waxman, Director, Intel Server Platforms Group
The MathWorks
“With the launch of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoft is extending the power of desktop machines to individual and work group clusters, allowing users to get up-and-running with distributed computing tools easier and faster. The new Distributed Computing Toolbox support for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 allows more MATLAB users to benefit from leveraging standard schedulers and underscores our commitment to bringing advanced high-performance computing tools to the engineering and scientific communities.”
-- Lisa Kempler, Director of MATLAB Applications at The MathWorks
Mecalog Group
“Mecalog, who recently announced that it will be acquired by Altair Engineering, is pleased to have entered into a strategic high-performance computing relationship with Microsoft Corp. As a result, we will benefit from Microsoft’s expertise and support to accelerate the robust porting of our RADIOSS technology on the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. I am happy to report that, in June, we experienced a significant increase in computing performance of RADIOSS 64-bit MPI on a Windows-based HPC cluster using Intel processors.”
-- M. Francis Arnaudeau, Manager of Mecalog
Mellanox Technologies
“Mellanox’s family of 10 and 20 Gb/s, low-latency, InfiniBand adapters and switch silicon devices, combined with the manageability functions of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, can easily and efficiently scale from as little as two nodes up to multi-thousand node supercomputers. With its high-reliability, optimal CPU utilization, and price/performance benefits, Mellanox InfiniBand is the ideal fabric choice for commodity clustering solutions.”
-- Thad Omura, Vice President of Product Marketing at Mellanox Technologies
Myricom
“Clusters have become the dominant computer architecture for satisfying the growing demands for increased processing power for HPC users and for enterprises. Microsoft’s increased efforts in HPC, particularly the introduction of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, will help stimulate the development of additional cluster application programs, and will promote the use of clustering among the enormous base of systems powered by Microsoft Windows.”
-- Dr. Chuck Seitz, founder and CEO of Myricom
Parallel Geoscience Corp.
“Our customers come to us for high-quality, high-performance software offering up-to-date features. By working with Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, we feel confident that our SPW product will provide users a stable, high-performance, seismic processing solution with enhanced functionality and significant additional value.”
-- Dan Herold, vice president of Parallel Geoscience Corp.
Platform Computing
“Platform EGO will become a significant piece of the software stack for grid-enabled companies using Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 as the industry trend towards low-cost cluster solutions continues. With this integration, Platform and Microsoft are providing their joint customers who have cluster and data center environments the tools to dynamically manage their computing capabilities and efficiently allocate resources, while delivering increased agility and control over their environment.”
-- Chris Purpura, Vice President, Strategic Alliances and New Ventures at Platform Computing
The Portland Group
“PVF is a key component of a broader PGI strategy to enable comprehensive cross-platform development and tuning of performance-critical applications. Our existing PGI Workstation and PGI Server product lines are the ideal solutions for developers upgrading platforms or maintaining large, complex, performance-critical applications across multiple platforms. PVF adds to the existing line a version of the PGI Fortran compilers deeply integrated with Visual Studio 2005, compatible with Windows Server 2003 x64 editions, delivering the proven ease-of-use and productivity benefits of this environment to Fortran developers looking to upgrade from 32-bit Windows or develop new parallel applications targeted for Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.”
-- Douglas Miles, Director, The Portland Group
SilverStorm Technologies
“SilverStorm is thrilled to be working closely with Microsoft to deliver Windows-based high-performance computing solutions for mainstream markets. Through this strategic relationship, SilverStorm is helping Microsoft provide Windows customers with the same benefits large cluster network users enjoy today — high performance, reliable, scalable solutions combined with unparalleled service.”
-- Reini Florin, Vice President of Marketing, SilverStorm Technologies
Tyan Computer Corp.
“Tyan is pleased to be aligned with Microsoft on Personal Supercomputing initiatives. The combination of our design, manufacturing and systems capability with Microsoft’s operating system and server expertise, positions Tyan to be a premier solution provider for this quickly growing and important segment of the HPC market.”
-- Symon Chang, CEO of Tyan Computer Corporation
University of Stuttgart
“We recently installed a new visualization cluster, running Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, to drive a virtual environments laboratory as well as online simulations and post-processing. Microsoft's entrance to HPC will help organizations integrate the laptop environment with their supercomputing environments, and deliver simplified high performance computing to smaller groups scattered throughout their organizations.”
-- Michael Resch, Director of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart at the University of Stuttgart
Verari Systems
"Our customers come to us for high-quality turnkey solutions that include operating systems and middleware with the most up-to-date features. Delivering a solution that can be plugged in, turned on and operated with little or no additional configuring gives our customers significant time to market advantages, and allows us to reach new customers that thought High Performance Computing was too complex and costly. By coordinating with Microsoft, we feel confident that Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 will provide users of our highly portable Microsoft Windows-based servers with enhanced functionality and significant value.”
-- Dave Driggers, CEO of Verari Systems
Voltaire
“We are extremely pleased to be able to offer customers Voltaire’s InfiniBand hardware and HPC solutions on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. Customers in industries ranging from education and research to financial services and manufacturing can now get simplified deployment, operation and integration with existing systems through Windows-based HPC clusters.”
-- Patrick Guay, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Voltaire
Wolfram Research
“This is a big advantage for our Microsoft Windows customers and system administrators, particularly those who are unfamiliar with UNIX, Linux, or cluster management. It reduces the set-up cost, time, and effort required to establish a cluster to a level that is very reasonable and attractive to more mainstream customers. We have users that have been waiting for this kind of development and we’ve been working with Microsoft for some time now to ensure an optimal experience running gridMathematica on Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.”
-- Roger Germundsson, Director of Research and Development at Wolfram Research
