Microsoft unveils new work in the world of supercomputing that makes use of its high-performance computing server product. The highlight is a project that saved money and electricity by being moved to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Nov. 16, 2009 — Today at Supercomputing 2009, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of betas for Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and distributed Microsoft Office Excel 2010 ...

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will invest $1B in San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company OpenAI to create new AI supercomputing technologies on the Azure cloud platform under a ...

Microsoft has announced immediate availability of Windows High Performance Computing (HPC) Server 2008 R2, its top-of-the line Windows Server operating system, as of September 20. Microsoft already is ...

In its first major foray into academic supercomputing, the Microsoft Corporation announced last week that it would pay for new Institutes for High-Performance Computing at 10 universities around the ...

Supercomputing, once the preserve of top scientific and academic institutions which needed entire rooms to house their gigantic machines, can now be had out of a box from Microsoft for $50,000. The ...

Microsoft has acquired Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), maker of the desktop parallel computing platform Star-P, for an undisclosed amount. The software giant confirmed the purchase of ICS’s ...

Microsoft will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for high performance computing next year, leaving support for Intel’s Itanium 2 ...

Microsoft will sell a version of Windows for high-performance computing--a niche in which rival Linux is blossoming--with a first version planned for the second half of 2005. As first reported by CNET ...

In its first major foray into academic supercomputing, the Microsoft Corporation announced Tuesday that it would pay for new Institutes for High-Performance Computing at 10 universities around the ...

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