How to get a Windows Compute Cluster Server license for £1
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Posted in Windows, Microsoft on
Microsoft has kicked off perhaps the most interesting competition of late, and certainly one which has the potential to impact upon enterprise level business the most: the High Performance Computing challenge. Hopefully the £20,000 in prizes will be enough to spur students, for entry is restricted to higher education organisations, to enter the thing. The first round phase closes on December 14th, and entries can be registered now at the Imagine Cup website.
I like the idea of an HPC Challenge, anything that gets the brightest of our IT student minds working together to innovatively solve some of the World’s toughest problems has got to be a good thing. The fact that the winners will cop £5,000 and the five runners up £2,000 will no doubt also help. As will the fact that teams registering for the competition will be able to acquire Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) licenses for £1 per node (minimum 10 nodes) to support the development of their solutions.
Dr Michael Newberry, HPC Product Manager at Microsoft UK. says “HPC is about solving the really big problems. It’s about taking technology beyond what you can achieve on a PC: designing drugs and combating diseases; breaking codes and safeguarding privacy; forecasting the money markets; designing new aircraft and testing new cars; predicting the future of the universe - or of our climate next month. We want to encourage students with ideas about how to change the world. Let’s get them using the best technology on the planet to make their ideas’ real. We believe that students entering this competition will address problems that could significantly improve the daily lives of millions of people around the world in the future – realising their own potential and that of High Performance Computing.” While Professor Simon Cox, Professor of Computational Methods, in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton adds “I’m sure I will be amazed by the submissions. The students who participate in Student vs. Student represent the next generation of leaders. Their creativity and innovation speaks volumes about the promise of technology to make a difference in peoples’ lives in the way we think, work and communicate.”
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