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Microsoft has harnessed several its scalable/multicore/cloud initiatives to develop a brand new severe Computing Group (XCG).The new unit, developed this month, is being headed by Corporate Vice President and supercomputing professional Dan Reed. Based on Reed;s bio on Microsoft;s Web site, he is going to be responsible for investigation and improvement “on the cutting edge of ultrafast computing.”Here;s more from Microsoft;s web site on the mission of XCG:“XCG was formed in June of 2009 with the goal of developing new approaches to computing hardware and software for ‘exascale; computing (more than one quintillion,Microsoft Office 2007 Key, or 1018,Microsoft Office 2010, calculations per second), an area of investigation that the U.S. government has identified as critical for the future. The group;s analysis activities include work in the fields of computer security,Office 2007 Product Key, operating-system design, cryptography, datacenter architectures, specialty hardware accelerators and quantum computing.”Reed has held various posts since joining Microsoft in late 2007. He most recently was Director of Scalable and Multicore Systems,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, as well as director of Microsoft;s Cloud Computing Futures Initiative. That initiave is chartered with exploring new approaches to cloud services and datacenter design “including looking at ways to reduce hardware costs and power consumption,Windows 7 Activation, and increasing data centers; adaptability and resilience to failure.”Microsoft has been stepping up its investments inside and outside the company on multicore/manycore and high-end datacenter-computing projects.