Burton Smith has joined Microsoft a week after Bill Gates shared Microsoft’s Vision for Technical Computing delivering the keynote at Supercomputing 2005.
Bill shared a vision for the contribution the software industry can make to accelerating scientific research and engineering innovation, calling for broad collaboration among the computing industry, academia, and government to make technical computing easier and more productive.
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Q&A: Microsoft Announces Strategy for High-Performance Computing
Beta 2 of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
Establish 10 Institutions for High Performance Computing worldwide
Graphic: Microsoft Institutes for High Performance Computing
Bill Gates also announced an investment in 10 Institutes for High-Performance Computing worldwide. This multiyear, multimillion-dollar investment in joint research projects at these institutes will help guide ongoing software research and product innovation at Microsoft to address the most challenging technical computing problems. These institutes are Cornell University (U.S.); Nizhni Novgorod State University (Russia); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China); Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan); University of Southampton (England); University of Stuttgart (Germany); University of Tennessee (U.S.); University of Texas at Austin (U.S.); University of Utah (U.S.); and University of Virginia (U.S.).
Microsoft is working with the computing industry to help facilitate the next wave of discovery and deliver software that addresses some of the barriers scientists, engineers and researchers face.
With clusters of Multi-Core 64bit processors running multi-threads the Windows Supercomputer is inevitable and with the release of SQL Server 2005.