Windows HPC Server 2008 launched by Microsoft

So Microsoft strikes again, now it has come with the Release to Manufacture(RTM) of windows High performance server 2008. It seems HPC 2008 will be available to Independent software vendoew and computer manufacturers for final distribution.

Pallavi Kathuria, director, server business group, Microsoft India, said, “The success achieved by Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 in the last few years is a strong testament of Microsoft’s value proposition in the High Performance Computing market. We are confident that as the successor, Windows HPC Server 2008 will help us further build on this momentum by offering an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective and scalable HPC solution for firms to leverage their existing resources and scale from workstation to cluster — all in a familiar Windows environment.”

According to Microsoft Windows HPC 2008 is designed for imrpoving productivity of systems administration and cluster interoperability by simplifying overall deployment,administration and management ocer the entire system lifetime.
Window HPC Server 2008 also supports third-party numerical library providers, performance optimisers, compilers and debugging toolkits.