Preparing for high-end Windows
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft is building a high-end feature into Windows for speeding up data access in multiprocessor servers--a feature that to date has been available only in high-end Unix servers, the company said Tuesday. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company is working on support for a technology called non-uniform memory access, or NUMA, one method for designing large servers crammed with processors, said Sean McGrane, program manager for Microsoft's top-end Datacenter server. The support will be available in two versions of the next edition of Windows for servers, .Net Enterprise Server and .Net Datacenter. McGrane described the technology in a talk here at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, or WinHEC, where Microsoft is apprising hardware engineers of its plans, a key part of ensuring success for the company's software.