Microsoft Teams on HPC

By Doug Barney

In our first edition of the new DE’s Elements of Engineering IT & Computing newsletter, we talked about rumors that Google was buying PeakStream and would make a run at the world of high performance computing. PeakStream is essentially middleware allowing developers to write HPC apps without having to worry about the specifics of the back-ends, whether they are multiprocessors, multicores, or clusters.

Now Microsoft (Redmond, WA) has a deal with GigaSpaces (Herzliya, Israel), a company that offers a system similar to PeakStream.

Microsoft will add GigaSpaces’ Enterprise Data Grid middleware (now called the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), to Microsoft’s own Compute Cluster enterprise grid.

Developers can use Microsoft .NET, C++ or Java to build high performance apps that exploit GigaSpaces. Users have built GigaSpaces systems with as many as 2,000 CPUs and two terabytes of data. What is your HPC system or vendor of choice and what do you do with it? Let us know at [email protected]!

For more information visit the gigaspaces website here.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.