HPC Server 2008 RC1 coming this month

ENT News | at | by Mike

At the International Supercomputing Conference being held this week in Germany, Microsoft announced that it will roll out the first release candidate of its Windows HPC Server 2008 for high-performance computing in the last week of June.

Beta tests of the server are being conducted now. A system running a beta of HPC Server 2008 on Dell PowerEdge hardware, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, placed today at No. 23 on the list top 500 supercomputing sites for June.