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On May 2, Microsoft made available to testers a beta build of the second service pack (SP2) for its coming Windows Server High Performance Computing (HPC) 2008 R2 platform.

What makes this interesting is HPC 2008 R2 SP2 is the slated delivery vehicle for Dryad, Microsoft’s closest competitor to Google MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. In the early phase of its existence, Dryad was a Microsoft Research project dedicated to developing ways to write parallel and distributed programs that can scale from small clusters to large datacenters.

Link – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-to-testers-beta-of-coming-supercomputing-service-pack/9350?tag=content;selector-blogs

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.

Link – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-finalizes-its-latest-supercomputing-operating-system-release/7414