Supercomputing, once the preserve of top scientific and academic institutions which needed entire rooms to house their gigantic machines, can now be had out of a box from Microsoft for $50,000.
The only problem for Microsoft is to persuade small companies on a budget and without IT expertise they actually need it.
At the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden this week, Microsoft -- a tiny player in the $10 billion market -- campaigned to bring high-performance computing (HPC) to the mainstream.
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