Launch-happy Microsoft is set to roll out however one more enterprise item this month: Windows HPC 2008 Server.The official date for that rollout is September 22. The venue: The 2008 “High Performance on Wall Street” conference in New York.HPC stands for high-performance computing. HPC 2008 Server is the successor to Microsoft;s Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. Among the product;s features Microsoft has been touting for the past year: new high-speed networking,
Genuine Office 2007, scalable cluster management tools,
Office Enterprise 2007 Key, advanced failover capabilities,
Office Professional Plus 2010, a service oriented architecture (SOA) job scheduler,
Office Pro Plus 2010, and support for partners’ clustered file systems.Microsoft released Beta 1 of HPC 2008 Server in November 2007. In June 2008,
Purchase Office 2010, Microsoft delivered the near-final release candidate test build of the highest end SKU in its Windows Server 2008 line-up.Microsoft;s most formidable competitor in the HPC space is Linux. Research organizations and Wall Street firms are among some of the biggest users of HPC technology.