Microsoft is taking one step closer to the HPC cloud this week with its announcement that it will be bringing cloud-bursting capability to Azure and will provider greater reach for HPC users in the cloud, potentially opening up HPC to a wider array of users. Although the company has offered its HPC Server for some time, this announcement is not so much focused on the HPC Server as it is about enabling users to take advantage of an abundance of compute cycles on its Azure cloud. Part of this drive is to bring greater compute power via the cloud to larger groups of users, to make parallel programming more efficient, and to provide a new suite of tools or scientific computing.
Microsoft Takes Supercomputing To The Cloud
May 18, 2010