Launch-happy Microsoft is set to roll out yet a different enterprise product this month: Windows HPC 2008 Server.The official date for your 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 item;s features Microsoft has been touting for your past year: new high-speed networking,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, scalable cluster management tools,
Office 2007 Key, advanced failover capabilities,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, a service oriented architecture (SOA) job scheduler,
Office Professional 2007, and support for partners’ clustered file systems.Microsoft released Beta 1 of HPC 2008 Server in November 2007. In June 2008,
Office 2010 Key, 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.