Common set of HPC productivity tools reaches across desktop, clusters and cloud, including new Parallel Computing Initiative for multicore development and deployment.
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Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2 is the third version of the Microsoft® solution for high performance computing (HPC). Built on Windows Server® 2008 R2 64-bit technology, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 efficiently scales to thousands of nodes and integrates seamlessly with Windows-based IT infrastructures, providing a powerful combination of ease-of-use, low ownership costs, and performance.
As engineering simulations become more complex, customers using workstations are looking to move up to HPC to improve performance and meet tight project schedules, and get better products to market faster. The combination of FLUENT software and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 enhances cluster computing as an option for customers who need more HPC capacity in order to expand the role of simulation in their engineering process — allowing engineers to work with larger data sets and perform complex analysis with shorter turnaround time.
Deepening its investment in developer productivity, Microsoft created the Technical Computing Initiative, which encompasses the vision, strategy and innovative developments in systems, runtimes, programming models, libraries, language extensions, and development tools across desktop, cluster and cloud
These major investments from Microsoft in high-performance computing and parallel programming will enable a broader set of commercial application vendors as well as corporate and research programmers to embrace parallelism and take full advantage of the potential performance gains that are made available through adoption of multicore processors and server- and workstation clusters and cloud solutions.
More information on Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/hpc.
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