Microsoft Plots Broad Supercomputing Use

摘要

Buried beneath the bland announcement of Microsoft's new Technical Computing Initiative is some exciting stuff. Microsoft is bringing burst- and cluster-computing capabilities to Windows Azure. The upshot is that anyone will be able to access high-performance computing in the cloud.rnHPC is the politically correct acronym for what we used to call supercomputing. Microsoft has long sold Windows HPC Server as its operating system in support of highly parallel and cluster-computing systems.