Azure Futures - Distributed Computing and Number Crunching
- by JoshReuben
"the biggest Azure customers today are the ones using HPC on-premises at the current time" - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-azure-futures-turning-the-cloud-into-a-supercomputer/8592?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2Fmicrosoft+%28ZDNet+All+About+Microsoft%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Orleans Framework for cloud computing - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orleans
HPC on Azure - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-finalizes-its-latest-supercomputing-operating-system-release/7414
Dryad is Microsoft’s competitor to Google MapReduce and Apache Hadoop - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-takes-a-step-toward-commercializing-its-dryad-distributed-computing-technologies/8255?tag=mantle_skin;content
SQL Server Analysis Services DataMining in the cloud - http://www.sqlmag.com/article/reporting2/azure-data-mining-in-the-cloud.aspx