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Microsoft acquires Interactive Supercomputing

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WASHINGTON, USA: Software major Microsoft has acquired the technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a company that specializes in bringing the power of parallel computing to the desktop and making high performance computing more accessible to end users.

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As a result of the move, ISC's website, interactivesupercomputing.com now redirects to microsoft.com/pathways/star-p.

According to a post on Microsoft's server division blog, this move represents the company's ongoing commitment to parallel computing and high performance computing (HPC) and will bring together complementary technologies that will help simplify the complexity and difficulty of expressing problems that can be parallelized.

“ISC’s products and technology enable faster prototyping, iteration, and deployment of large-scale parallel solutions, which is well aligned with our vision of making high performance computing and parallel computing easier, both on the desktop and in the cluster,” said the blog.

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However, the acquisition will result in ISC's flagship product Star-P, which lets developers code computing problems on their desktops using familiar mathematical software and run them instantly and interactively on parallel high-performance computers (HPCs), partly being discontinued, said Ars Technica website.

Bill Blake, CEO of ISC, along with a team of industry leading experts on parallel and high performance computing will join the Microsoft team at the New England Research & Development Center in Cambridge, MA.

“We have recently begun plans to integrate ISC technologies into future versions of Microsoft products and will provide more information over the coming months on where and how that integration will occur,” said Kyril Faenov, general manager, High Performance & Parallel Computing Technologies at Microsoft in the blog.

“Microsoft will provide support for ISC’s current Star-P customers and we are committed to continually listening to customer needs as we develop the next generation of HPC and parallel computing technologies,” he added.

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