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 ...

Microsoft’s presence at Supercomputing ’05 in Seattle last week was unmistakable. The conference, which spotlights innovations in HPC (high-performance computing), featured more than 200 exhibitors, ...

Microsoft's chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, called supercomputing speculation "amusingly wrong" in a post welcoming Jason Taylor to the company from Meta. The comments come a month after ...

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 ...

Increased processing power coupled with lower-cost hardware is making supercomputing a more viable platform for corporate buyers running data-intensive business applications. That was a major theme at ...

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 ...