Microsoft has acquired the technology assets of Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a company that specializes in desktop tools for parallel computing, Microsoft said in a blog post.

According to Battacharya, much of the currently proposed, state-of-the-art hardware for solving these kinds of issuesare limited to second-order problems. The main benefit of their hardware, he noted, ...

While hardware vendors can build systems with hundreds or thousands of processors, many HPC applications produced by independent software vendors typically use just 12 or 16 processors in parallel ...

GPUs and CPUs are both computer and server hardware components. But whereas GPUs are ideal for comprehensive, data-heavy tasks, CPUs act as a “brain” of sorts that manage computer systems.