Microsoft hopes to score points in the HPC (High Performance Computing ), an area historically dominated by Unix systems. The secret weapon New grids’ integrating mixed Windows and Linux. Interview with Jeff Wierer and Bill Hamilton, director and senior director of Microsoft’s HPC activities in the United States, and Arnaud Putegnat and Muriel Barthelemy, HPC Product Manager and Sales Manager at Microsoft France..

Jeff Wierer: HPC (high performance computing) is a generic term used to define high performance calculations. This covers supercalculteurs – very powerful machines with many processors and shared memory – and clusters, ie Grid by networking many computers to perform common computationally intensive and costly. In general, HPC is used to solve problems that can not be addressed by a single machine, especially in the public sector (in the defense or research centers). There are also grid computing in finance, to measure some risks, or in industry, where they are used for research and development, including for the simulation.

Bill Hamilton: First, there is a new management system clusters of workstations (cluster of workstations), which will help companies better use of infrastructure available to them die ja. This feature allows you to build on positions that are not used during the day or at night to create grids.

Bill Hamilton: Yes. It is only possible with Windows 7. We focused on this system for two reasons. The first is that it facilitates the execution of certain tasks in connection with the Active Directory for example. The second is linked to performance.

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