Dotnetsolutions, a Microsoft Gold partner from the the UK have just finished porting their “Wikieexplorer” application to run on Windows Azure. Behind the scenes, a set of Windows Azure background processes have re-organized the millions on Wiki entries from the Wikipedia database into a form which can...

There is a lot more information becoming available of the Parallel frameworks in .NET 4.0. Here are some of the latest posts on the subject. One of the coolest screen casts you will want to see is from Jason Olson who talks about Race Conditions and how you can easily write applications which are...

Within the team we compiled a great lists of "best places" to find information about Windows HPC Server 2008 which just RTM'd. Community Sites which contain a lot of screens casts and interview content TechNet Edge - A collection of Windows HPC topical demonstrations for the IT Professionals...

Surely two cores can not still make an atom, but Intel seem to think so. At their dev conference, Intel announced their Atom 330 chip, a dual-core version of the Atom Diamondville processor specifically designed for the for low-cost "nettop" PC market that we have seen making a splash over the last few...

The team has started to share some of the early features of the HPC version of Windows Server 2008 which will be released in the Summer of 2008. On the developer side, Phil has created a HPC Show ( http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The_HPC_Show ) and already have 4 episodes. On the ITPRO side, Giovanni...

Giovanni in the team has created a screen cast for the first beta of Windows Server HPC 2008 (V2 of the product ) which walks you through the new capabilities including setup and deployment, monitoring, reporting and resource management. Giovanni also gives you details of how you can get your hands on...

So at Super Computing 2007 we announced a new name called Windows HPC Server 2008 ( instead of Windows Compute Cluster Server -- it never really did zing - clusters what is that all about) and the fact that we are shipping the first beta of the V2 product. The second announcement is the creation of the...

Giovanni in the team has been working really closely with the University of Manchester on a High Performance computing project which used Windows Compute Cluster Server ( HPC ) together with Windows Workflow Foundation to study the effects of molecular characteristics and community factors for common...

For a while now, multi-core and symmetric processing have become hot issues within the software industry and during a recent Microsoft platform strategy review with some of our closest partners, this was one of the most important subjects they came to listen about. Microsoft is making a number of significant...