Just days after announcing plans for supporting the Hadoop big-data framework, Microsoft rolled out the near-final version of its own Hadoop (and Google MapReduce) competitor, known as LINQ to HPC ...
Mary Jo Foley writes that here are a number of new technologies in the latest service pack for Windows HPC Server, but there’s one key promised component that’s not: Dryad, an ongoing research project ...
Mary Jo Foley writes that Microsoft has 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 ...