It's a fact: Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) combines the power of the Windows Server platform with rich, out-of-the-box functionality to help improve the productivity and reduce the complexity of your HPC environment. Windows HPC Server 2008 can efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores and provides a comprehensive set of deployment, administration, and monitoring tools that are easy to deploy, manage, and integrate with your existing infrastructure.

A simple, personal computer-based technology solution was enough to get No1 Currency off the ground but, as the company’s business soared, it thought it needed a pricey, high-maintenance mainframe solution to keep growing. Microsoft® solution provider Corporate Modelling showed it how the company’s grid computing solution, based on high-performance computing with Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003, could cut costs over the mainframe by 90 percent, boost productivity 100 percent, provide all the scalability the company wanted, and integrate with existing systems that would have been difficult or impossible to integrate with the mainframe.