HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market
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Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard announced on Tuesday an extension of their long-running collaborative sales and marketing pact as they seek a bigger share in the growing market for supercomputers.
The two companies aim to give high-performance computers more "mass market" appeal by making them easier to deploy, support and manage. Enhancements will include work on Windows Compute Cluster Server that includes custom installation scripts and documentation aimed at making deployment easier. HP said there is now increased scalability of large clusters with the HP Message Passing Interface and InfiniBand drivers offering better performance in applications that require high-speed, low-latency communications.