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Evolving from the Edge to Mainstream

High-performance computing deals with very high volume and throughput-information processing. Financial IT consultant Ray Ferrara at Fiducité examines HPC from a Windows-based perspective.

Once the domain of expensive, esoteric research projects, high-performance computing (HPC) today is becoming mainstream, paralleling industries like automobiles where techniques proven for the race track find their way to the family car, just as high-speed interconnects, look-ahead instruction caching, parallel compilers and debuggers and other artifacts of HPC are finding their way into financial industry computers.

Microsoft’s Leadership in Distributed Enterprise Computing Builds Case for HPC

Financial firms can now deploy clusters of servers running Windows Server 2003 to benefit from supercomputing power at a fraction of the cost. Kyril Faenov, Microsoft’s HPC product unit director explains how.

Some of the toughest computing challenges in the world are tackled and often solved by using high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Companies can now cost efficiently deploy clusters of servers running Windows Server 2003 to benefit from supercomputing power.

To learn how, we talked to Kyril Faenov, director of the high-performance computing product unit in the Windows Server group, who leads the HPC product strategy and implementation at Microsoft.