The testing version of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 is released
Microsoft in PDC 09 of the General Assembly today announced that its two new products began to enter the Beta testing phase, namely Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and Excel 2010.According to Microsoft’s statement, the Beta version of these two products are already available, including Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta can be related to the Microsoft Connect page download, but Microsoft Excel 2010 Beta does not inform the access way.
Excel 2010 is a part of Office 2010, Microsoft at worldwide partner conference (WPC09) in July released the technology preview version of Office 2010, and now Microsoft has offered Office 2010 Beta download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers , but the ordinary users have to wait. Microsoft TechNet Forums Technical support staff has pointed out that from 17th to 19th November,the public beta version of Office 2010 will be released, it should be is a Microsoft Excel 2010 Beta announced the availability date.
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 is an integrated 64-bit environment that will help system administrators to quickly deploy scalable, high-performance computing (HPC) platform, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 is the next generation of Windows HPC Server 2008 product, and is based on Windows Server 2008 R2 .
The release of Beta version of Windows HPC Server 2008 on the basis of a large number of improvements include enhanced HPC architecture scalability and manageability, especially the HPC architecture job scheduling, uptime, and management. Connect according to the instructions on the Microsoft, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta is also unable to support the Intel Itanium IA-64 architecture supports up to 1,000 cluster nodes.
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta official download address:
http://www.microsoft.com/hpc/en/us/ctp-download.aspx