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PORTLAND, Ore. — Nov. 16, 2009 — Today at Supercomputing 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of betas for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and distributed Microsoft Office Excel 2010 ...

Supercomputing, once the preserve of top scientific and academic institutions which needed entire rooms to house their gigantic machines, can now be had out of a box from Microsoft for $50,000. The ...

Microsoft has announced immediate availability of Windows High Performance Computing (HPC) Server 2008 R2, its top-of-the line Windows Server operating system, as of September 20. Microsoft already is ...

It's a truism that high-performance computing (HPC) is the domain of UNIX and, more recently, of Linux, but that hasn't stopped Microsoft from wanting a piece of it. Microsoft's entry into the HPC ...

Microsoft has acquired Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), maker of the desktop parallel computing platform Star-P, for an undisclosed amount. The software giant confirmed the purchase of ICS’s ...

Microsoft will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for high performance computing next year, leaving support for Intel’s Itanium 2 ...

After some delay, Microsoft finally ventured into the world of supercomputers with the launch of its Computer Cluster Server. The Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, launched on Friday, although ...

In its first major foray into academic supercomputing, the Microsoft Corporation announced last week that it would pay for new Institutes for High-Performance Computing at 10 universities around the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. Microsoft and Cray just announced a strategic alliance that ...

Today Cray announced a partnership with Microsoft to offer dedicated Cray supercomputing systems in Microsoft Azure. Under the partnership agreement, Microsoft and Cray will jointly engage with ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today shared his vision of how the software industry can contribute to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation during his keynote speech at ...