Per my last post on June 1, the momentum continues for our HPC program. Working with Adaptive Computing and Brasoftware, Microsoft and Novell signed a deal this week with one of Brazil’s largest energy companies (and one of the world’s largest companies) to deploy Adaptive’s Moab suite alongside SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing and Windows HPC Server. We’re very excited about the continued momentum and will post specific details soon. Of interest, at the 2010 International Supercomputing Conference that took place this week in Hamburg, Germany, the annual list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was released. Dawning, another customer, has just announced ‘Nebulae’ – a 120,000+ core machine hosted at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen. This brings China to 2nd place on the list behind the United States for ‘Jaguar’ – a 224,000+ core machine located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Looking at year over year trends, momentum continues to build for HPC due to new demands for computing workloads and demands for raw compute power. And while the machines are evolving quickly to meet these performance and capacity requirements, too often workload management and system access by engineers becomes a constraint that limits HPC output. As per my last post, the teams at Microsoft and Novell are working to improve on-demand computing efficiency to help companies realize greater value out of their HPC investments. We look forward to continuing this work with other organizations in the future.