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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. Microsoft and Cray just announced a strategic alliance that ...

Microsoft’s quest to make a name for itself in the high-performance computing world took a step forward this week with a new beta version of Windows HPC Server that Microsoft says will improve ...