"The plunging cost of computing power is both an opportunity and a challenge to Microsoft, which on Tuesday plans to unveil its first entry into the market for high-performance scientific and technical computing. The company's Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003 software is scheduled to become available in the first half of next year and is intended to give scientists and engineers a simple way to gain high-performance computing from their existing Microsoft desktop computersm," reports The New York Times.
"Microsoft is planning a significant marketing push into the field with a keynote speech by Bill Gates, the company's co-founder and chairman, on Tuesday at the annual supercomputing trade show taking place this week in Seattle."
Best headline with this story: "Hi, I'm Clippy, your supercomputing assistant; you look like you're trying to model complex atmospheric phenomena" over at the SiliconValley.com blog.
