The Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing was created in November 2005 at the University of Southampton. The only one of its kind in the UK. It is one of nine such institutes worldwide.
History The creation of the institute was announced by Bill Gates during the International Supercomputing Conference in 2005, and the institute itself is currently led by Professor Simon J. Cox while Dr. Kenji Takeda, co-director, left the University of Southampton to join Microsoft. "Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing"
In 2006 Microsoft was working on a proof-of-concept implementation of a bespoke engineering workflow software for BAE Systems. The large British aerospace company wanted to run its SOLAR software on the Microsoft Cluster Server. The teams at the University of Southampton, BAE Systems and Microsoft managed to build a demonstrator in just 3 weeks. This comprised an SQL Server back-end and a Net 2.0 Web Service. "Proof-of-concept Engineering Workflow Demonstrator"
Research The institute has conducted research in: Computational fluid dynamics Computational electromagnetics Electrical grid technologies Conference XP SQL WinFS Windows Communication Foundation Microsoft Cluster Server
Reception Microsoft Visual Studio's Product Manager Dennis Crain referring to the MIHPC in Southampton said: "Microsoft creates Institute for High Performance Computing at the University of Southampton"
List of MIHPCs worldwide University of Southampton TACC - University of Texas Austin University of Utah University of Stuttgart Shanghai Jiao Tong University Nizhny Novgorod University University of Tennessee Tokyo Institute of technology Shanghai Supercomputer Center
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