Microsoft has harnessed quite a few its scalable/multicore/cloud initiatives to make a new serious Computing Group (XCG).The new unit, produced this month, is being headed by Corporate Vice President and supercomputing expert Dan Reed. According to Reed;s bio on Microsoft;s Internet web site,
Cheap Office 2010, he is going to be responsible for research and advancement “on the cutting edge of ultrafast computing.”Here;s more from Microsoft;s web-site on the mission of XCG:“XCG was formed in June of 2009 with the goal of developing new approaches to computing hardware and software for ‘exascale; computing (more than one quintillion, or 1018, calculations per second), an area of research that the U.S. government has identified as critical for the future. The group;s study activities include work in the fields of computer security,
Office 2007 Product Key, operating-system design,
Office 2007 Serial, cryptography,
Office Standard 2010 Key, datacenter architectures, specialty hardware accelerators and quantum computing.”Reed has held various posts since joining Microsoft in late 2007. He most recently was Director of Scalable and Multicore Systems,
Windows 7 Starter Key, as well as director of Microsoft;s Cloud Computing Futures Initiative. That initiave is chartered with exploring new approaches to cloud services and datacenter design “including looking at ways to reduce hardware costs and power consumption, and increasing data centers; adaptability and resilience to failure.”Microsoft has been stepping up its investments inside and outside the company on multicore/manycore and high-end datacenter-computing projects.