As new technology or an incremental enhancement of technology is released, industry awareness cycles through the following stages: The technology is announced. The announcement may occur months before ...

Microsoft is positioning the deal, announced on August 15, as a way for it to enable its customers to use high-performance computing and other "Big Computing" capabilities in the public cloud. From ...

Microsoft is buying Cycle Computing in a move to accelerate high-performance computing (HPC) in the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cycle Computing’s software makes computation in the ...