Microsoft has scooped up the chief scientist of supercomputer manufacturer Cray, Burton Smith. Smith will leave the company on 7 December to take a job at the software giant. He will cease to be a Cray director the same day. Microsoft has started to show a keen interest in high-performance computing. At the Supercomputing 05 show in Seattle earlier this month, it unveiled beta 2 of Windows Compute Cluster 2003, an version of its server OS with additional job-cheduling tools for computing clusters.
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