Excel and Windows HPC Server work together
Microsoft has submitted its lines of development for their products HPC (high performace computing). What is striking is certainly the relationship will be between Excel 2010 and Windows HPC Server 2008 R2.
From Microsoft claim that many people make the first test in Excel before working with supercomputers. The intention now is that Excel macros can be sent from a high-powered server for execution.
Source: theregister.co.uk
Cray heads the new Top500 list
The new TOP500 list was published today. With it comes the surprise of IBM is not first, but has been Cray supercomputer Jaguar.
Jaguar has built for the computer science center of Oak Ridge. It is built on AMD 6-core Istanbul , for a total of 1,759,000 GFlops (224 162 nuclei).
Other headlines :
402 systems use Intel processors.
427 are carried x86 quad-core processors.
IBM is a leader in installed capacity, 35%, followed by HP, Cray and SGI.
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