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 working on an update to the just-released HPC 2008 R2 platform that will “allow customers to provision and manage HPC nodes in Windows Azure from within on-premises server clusters,†and is planning to demonstrate this capability at the High Performance Computing Financial Markets Conference in New York today.
