Microsoft, Novell to Deliver Hybrid Options for High-Performance Computing

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High-performance computing (HPC) continues to gain in popularity as businesses face increasing pressure to process data faster and with greater precision.

High-performance computing (HPC) continues to gain in popularity as businesses face increasing pressure to process data faster and with greater precision. Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc., working in concert with third parties, are now making it easier for IT executives to take advantage of the benefits of supercomputing with a technology initiative that helps customers realize greater IT infrastructure efficiency and subsequent cost savings. Today, Microsoft and Novell reported strong demand for their high-performance computing interoperability solution with 33 shared customers now deploying sophisticated server workload management across SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Server.

High-performance computing offers customers the ability to process massive amounts of data and solve computationally intense problems, making it an optimal choice for government entities, universities and large companies. In the past year, Microsoft and Novell have added HPC customer

accounts in a wide range of geographies and industries, such as the financial, healthcare, higher education and technology sectors. Examples include Deutsche Bank AG, Honeywell International, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd., Texas Instruments, Tianjin Dawning Information Industry Co. Ltd. and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

South Africas Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in Cape Town, the continents largest publicly funded HPC facility, is the latest company to adopt cross-platform solutions and enterprise support offerings from Microsoft and Novell.

Businesses looking for ways to streamline infrastructure management, reduce IT costs and mitigate risk have long realized the value of interoperability as a way to optimize mixed-source IT environments. HPC customers now can gain the critical flexibility they need to simplify systems management through dual-boot and hybrid cluster solutions developed jointly by Microsoft and Novell.
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br /> This HPC solution represents another joint technical initiative that delivers value to customers and partners. The partnership continues to broaden its joint technical scope and offering to enhance datacenter optimization for customers all over the globe.

Through the Microsoft and Novell joint Interoperability Lab in Cambridge, Mass., engineers from both companies have been working side by side to create technical solutions that support customers in addressing their unique challenges relative to advancing their technical and business objectives within a mixed-source operational environment.