CCS Partner Momentum

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Microsoft is the main sponsor at this year's ISC in Dresden. Many Microsoft partners show their support. In his keynote address today Microsoft fellow Burton Smith talked about new approaches to software development where everyday computer programs must be able to execute in parallel on multiple microprocessor cores, allowing developers to build more powerful, humanistic software applications that incorporate speech, conversation, rich visualization and anticipatory execution of tasks. The many-core inflection point was presented as a new challenge for the computing industry, namely general-purpose parallel computing.

Right after the keynote Microsoft issued a press release 'Microsoft Technical Fellow Keynotes on the Reinvention of Computing'. You can read the complete release here. Most important for me as evangelist working with so many different ISV partners is the piece highlighting the current partner ecosystem. Partners supporting our platform show the real momentum behind CCS or Windows Compute Cluster Server.

The following partners have publicly released applications that run on, or interoperate with, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003:

  • Altair Engineering Inc. — HyperWorks, RADIOSS SPMD v5
  • ANSYS Inc. — ANSYS 11.0 and FLUENT 6.3
  • BioTeam Inc. — iNquiry
  • CD-adapco Group — Star-CD, Star-CCM+
  • Computer Modelling Group Ltd. — IMEX, GEM and STARS, Builder, Results, WinProp
  • Dassault Systemes — Abacus
  • Decisioneering Inc. — Crystal Ball
  • ESI Group — PAM-STAMP 2G, PAM-CRASH 2G
  • LSTC — LS-DYNA
  • The MathWorks Inc. — MATLAB
  • MSC.Software Corp. — MD Nastran, SimOffice, Marc, Dytran
  • Parallel Geoscience Corp. — SPW
  • PipeLine FX LLC — Qube!
  • Platform Computing Inc. — LSF
  • Schlumberger Ltd. — ECLIPSE, GigaViz
  • Software CRADLE Co. Ltd. — SC/Tetra, STREAM
  • SPT Group — MEPO
  • Visual Numerics Inc. — IMSL Numerical Library in C, C# and Fortran
  • Wolfram Research Inc. — Mathematica6, gridMathematica

Many major system vendors from around the world are shipping integrated solutions based on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. These vendors include Bull SAS, Dell Inc., Equus, Fujitsu Ltd., HP, HPC Systems Inc., IBM Corp., NEC Corp., SGI, Supermicro Computer Inc., TeamHPC (a division of M&A Technology), Tyan Computer Corp., and Visual Technologies Inc.

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