Microsoft, nVidia tag team on HPC
Grid and cluster computing software maker Platform Computing was smart enough to see this was an obvious way to leverage the increasing popularity of GPUs in the HPC realm, and announced its own bundling deal for CUDA back in August. Platform really had no choice but to do some integration with CUDA and its GPUs, since its Load Sharing Facility workload manager for HPC clusters has to be able to dispatch work to the GPUs just as it has done for a long time for central processors on server nodes in a cluster.
