Microsoft execs haven;t been beating the parallel-computing drum as loudly as they had been a year or two back,
Office 2010 Professional Key, but that doesn;t mean nothing is taking place in this particular space.Late last month, Microsoft produced out there for download a new edition of the HPC (Superior Overall performance Computing) Toolpack, which is often a assortment of utilities which will be employed on Windows Server 2008 R2-based clusters. The newest instrument pack consists of two instruments, 1 recognized as “Lizard,” and the other as “ClusterCopy.” Lizard,
Office 2007 Standard, the Linpack Overall performance Wizard, calculates peak overall performance of HPC clusters in billions of floating-point operations per second (GFLOPS) and allows users to save those results and the parameters that helped achieved them. ClusterCopy is actually a tool for distributing files around a cluster using a tree-based copy system.As I noted in a previous blog post, Microsoft is gearing up to make some more noise in the HPC space this fall, when the company is expected to release a first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of its Dryad parallel/distributed computing infrastructure technology. A last commercial version of Dryad is due out some time in 2011. Dryad has been a Microsoft Research project,
Microsoft Office 2010 Home And Business, but is in the process of being commercialized, according to a Microsoft presentation I saw.“Lizard and ClusterCopy have no direct relationship to Dryad today,” a Microsoft spokesperson said when I asked if there was any connection between the products. “Microsoft periodically releases additional resources for HPC that they developed out of band (between formal releases/updates) with the product. These provide additional value to our customers, at no additional cost, through online instrument packs.”In other parallel/distributed computing news this week,
Genuine Office 2010, Intel rolled out an updated edition of its Parallel Studio tool suite for Windows developers. The new Intel Parallel Studio 2011 is designed to help developers increase the efficiency and reliability of both serial and parallel applications running on multicore processors. The new Studio 2011 adds a set of parallel models, known as Parallel Building Blocks, as well as a brand new threading assistant,
Office 2010 License, known as Parallel Advisor. The new Intel suite supports Visual Studio 2010.Intel has been working with Microsoft on adding and improving support for parallel/multicore systems.Microsoft;s recently formed Technical Computing Group is the part of the company that has the charter these days for parallel, technical and high-performance computing.