Microsoft and HPC: Driving High Productivity in a Competitive World

At Supercomputing 2006, Microsoft entered the HPC marketplace with Windows Compute Cluster. In this interview, Microsoft will present key findings and trends over the last year, as well as key initiatives and product plans to make parallel computing more productive for end-users, cluster administrators, and developers. Shawn Hansen discusses how customers and software developers have introduced HPC in new ways, driving productivity from small turnkey clusters to clusters as large as 7000 nodes.

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Shawn Hansen is Director of Marketing for High Performance Computing at Microsoft. Shawn is responsible for worldwide marketing and product strategy for HPC at Microsoft, including Windows Compute Cluster Server. Previous to Microsoft, Shawn lead marketing and product management teams for the Server Networking and Virtualization Business Unit (SVBU) at Cisco Systems. Shawn joined Cisco Systems as part of its acquisition of Topspin Communications. Topspin had successfully become a market leader in InfiniBand and I/O virtualization technologies. Previously, Shawn Hansen held product management positions at CacheFlow and Novell, and holds a degree in Humanities and Japanese Literature from Brigham Young University.