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Is it CCS or CCE? Our HPC solution naming background.
Is it Compute Cluster Solution or Compute Cluster Edition? We seem to be getting a few perplexed looks from some of our customers as to the actual name of our new HPC technology. Is it Compute Cluster Solution (CCS) or Compute Cluster Edition (CCE)? The short answer is both. 😉 Please read on….. Windows Server -
Windows Server Codenamed “Longhorn” PDC Build 5219
We are really glad that we were able to deliver an updated build of Windows Server codenamed Longhorn for the PDC this week here in LA. The build is quite ‘hot off the press’.  For those of you who install it, you may notice that some of the screens indicate that the build is -
Virtual Server 2005 now offered in MSDN
We have received overwhelming customer and partner feedback requesting that Virtual Server 2005 be part of MSDN. We have listened, and as such, effective today Virtual Server 2005 Standard Edition will be available as part of MSDN Enterprise, and Universal and the future Premium subscriptions. Remember though……like other MSDN products, subscriptions are limited to single-user licensees for design, development, -
Microsoft’s Compute Cluster Solution at PDC 05 – Beta 1 Announced
Today at PDC 05 in Los Angeles our Director of High Performance Computing (HPC), Kyril Faenov, outlined Microsoft’s plans for our newest addition to the Windows Server family – Compute Cluster Solution (CCS) in a packed breakout session. What is Microsoft’s CCS you ask? CCS is essentially taking a CPU intensive computational load and spreading -
Windows Server HPC at IDF
With product due before too long and BillG speaking at Supercomputing ’05 in November, I’m expecting to start seeing more Windows Server high performance computing offerings from partners. Last week at Intel Developer Forum, an IHV partner called Mellanox ran a demo using the SDK for Windows Server Compute Cluster Edition, running on two server -
Longhorn Server 64bit plans revealed
We posted a Web bulletin today to let customers know that Longhorn Server running on Itanium-based servers “is designed specifically for database workloads and custom and line-of-business applications.” The bulletin goes on to state: Windows Server roles that don’t apply to these workloads for example, fax server, Windows Media Services, Windows SharePoint Services, file and