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Supercomputers can do Windows 

The supercomputing world publishes a list twice a year of the 500 most powerful supercomputers. Conveniently, it’s called the Top500 project. The list is part bragging rights (among vendors) and part trends tracking (among scholars). But without a doubt, the list represents the who’s who of supercomputing and high-performance computing.

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10 Things about Windows CCS that You Won’t Read Anywhere Else 

Windows Compute Cluster Server has been RTM’d, and the bloggers and press are running their stories. And you can watch/listen to Zane talk about Windows CCS at the Virtual TechEd site. And of course you can go to the Windows CCS site for technical details and white papers.

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TechEd preview – high performance computing 

I’m looking forward to attending TechEd in Boston. There are some great breakout sessions planned on Windows infratsructure technologies. So over the course of the next week I’ll highlight some of them in case you haven’t decided which sessions to attend. Today’s post will focus on High Performance Computing.

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Scalable Networking Pack Makes Debut at WinHEC ’06 

Yesterday morning, during Bob Muglia’s keynote address to WinHEC 2006, we officially launched the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003!  The Scalable Networking Pack introduces a number of architectural innovations to Windows Server 2003 (SP1 or later) that enables support for the next generation of network acceleration and hardware-based offload technologies.

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Monad’s new name – Windows PowerShell 

Today at the Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia announced the new name for our new task-based command line shell and scripting language: Windows PowerShell (What do you think – like it?)  Formerly known under the code-name “Monad”, Windows PowerShell is now at the Release Candidate (RC1) milestone and will be fully baked in Q4 of.

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Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 

When I took on the role of Technical Product Manager for Internet Information Services, one of the first questions I had to ask was “How do we [Microsoft] deploy and manage IIS?”  I wanted to provide IT Pros with best practice guidance for Web deployments of Windows Server 2003, and who better to give this.

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The March of the Virtualized Penguins 

LinuxWorld-Boston is shaping up to be dominated by virtualization news. Be it the major Linux distributors talking about the incorporation (or attempt to incorporate) of Xen hypervisor into the Linux kernal. We’ll also hear about expanded uses of virtualization and the possible virtualization format battle between vendors.

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Upcoming Windows Server 2003 R2 Webcasts 

Can’t get enough R2?  Go in-depth on Windows Server 2003 R2 in this new TechNet level 300 webcast series for IT professionals.   Microsoft subject matter experts walk you through how to plan and deploy the new features and scenarios in Windows Server 2003 R2.

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Managing Consolidated Servers with WSRM 

In my last blog, I talked about the benefits of server consolidation. I also mentioned that Microsoft is enabling our customers to consolidate with virtualization and run more application workloads in a single OS image. The end goal is to reduce the complexity of the environment that you support, which lowers costs and increases reliability.

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Windows Server in 1st place in World Wide Server Market 

According to the latest Worlwide Quarterly Server Tracker from IDC, Windows Server revenues in 2005 exceeded UNIX servers, putting Windows Server ahead of UNIX for the first time in overall server OS sales. If you follow this kind of thing, you can read more on Windows Server site and the IDC Press Release site.