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A high level synopsis of Microsoft's Technical Computing offerings is presented by Ryan Waite, General Manager for High Performance Computing.  The sheer size of generated data is a key driver in today's computational ecosphere.  By the end of 2010, over 1.2 zetabyte of data will have…

Microsoft Excel has become an indispensible calculation, prototyping, and simulation tool that handles complex multi-variable models.  A fictitious case study is described where the customer, an insurance underwriter, explores over one trillion scenarios to optimize investments that hedge its…

Matt Blythe, Product Manager with the Microsoft Technical Computing team, offers an introduction to Dual-Boot "Hybrid" Clusters that allow Windows HPC and Linux HPC to exist on the same hardware.  A key advantage of this approach is simplified integration into existing Linux-centric…

Please join Clustercorp and Microsoft to learn about Rocks+Hybrid -- a combination of the commercial version of the Rocks® Cluster Distribution for Linux and Microsoft Windows® HPC Server 2008.  The joint solution is a simple to use product for deploying dual-boot HPC systems that run…

Moonlight, the Linux implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, has just hit another milestone: version 2.0 (beta). This latest update follows the Moonlight preview originally released in May. If you were already running the preview release, you’ll be prompted to update the next time you…

In the middle of the summer you might think Microsoft would take a break and kick-back but clearly that's not how we roll. In addition to Office 2010 and Windows 7- Microsoft made news in a few other ways... Microsoft hired the Apple guy?  Linux is my homeboy Xbox Handheld coming…

Today Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux Community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. Sam Ramji, Senior Director of Platform Strategy, and Tom Hanrahan, Director of…

Here's the second part of the conversation with Martin Taylor and Bill Hilf on Linux, Windows and Microsoft. Here we get some of the Niners' questions answered and go on a tour of Bill's lab. Enjoy. Download Size:  88 MB

Charles Torre sits down with Martin Taylor and Bill Hilf and chats about Linux, Windows and Microsoft. Martin Taylor is Microsoft's General Manager of Competitive Strategy. He's the guy that's been known to wear bullet proof vests at Linux conferences and reaches out to the…