Microsoft Gets Serious about Exascale Computing
June 13, 2009
One of the Beyond Search goslings quipped, “Yep, only a decade later than Google.” I chastised the young goose. Better late than never. In July 2009 I am going to print in this Web log some info about the queries per second one can expect from Microsoft Fast and from the Google. Startling data if my sources are on the money.
In the meantime, you will want to read Mary Jo Foley’s “New Microsoft eXtreme Computing Group Takes Aim at Exascale Calculations.”
Ms. Foley wrote:
“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 research activities include work in the fields of computer security, operating-system design, cryptography, datacenter architectures, specialty hardware accelerators and quantum computing.”
Keep in mind that Hewlett Packard has a pricey new line of Extreme servers. Could there be a happy coincidence? Will Microsoft be able to draw even with the Google or will Microsoft’s late start doom it to lag forever behind Googzilla?
Stephen Arnold, June 13, 2009
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