HPC Server 2008 RC1 is expected this month

At the International Supercomputing Conference held this week in Germany, Microsoft Corporation announced the release first release (Release Candidate 1) of its Windows HPC Server 2008 for high-speed computing. He is expected in the last week of July.

At this time conducted beta testing the server. The provisional version of HPC Server 2008 is working on the equipment Dell PowerEdge, located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Hundreds of universities have already test HPC Server 2008, heir Microsoft Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS 2003). Of all the NCSA systems, a system called Abe, took the highest position to date list of all TOP-500, issuing 68.48 teraflops (trillion floating-point operations per second). She uses her work in 2400 Quad processor Intel Xeon 2.3GHz, and, in turn, each processor supports 4 GB of memory. A total of 9600 GB of memory is used.