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Microsoft's new eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), barely a few months old, is illustrative of the company’s efforts to evolve in order to embrace multicore chips and the Cloud. The Redmond company sees processors with multiple cores and data hosting facilities becoming mainstream examples of 21st century computing, and needed a group that would help transition technology innovations from Microsoft Research into products developed for consumers. In this regard, XCG is designed to tackle challenges brought by ultra-scale and high-performance computing hardware and software development.Microsoft noted that this group in particular deals with a range of computing efforts, including: “security, cryptography, operating-system design, parallel-programming models, cloud software, data center architectures, specialty hardware accelerators, and quantum computing.”Dan Reed, corporate vice president of XCG, revealed that the focus of XCG was to take hardware and software development!
to the next level. The group has a unified research and incubation model, which allows it to sit between plain vanilla research and fully fledged product development. Specifically, the group eases the integration of ideas from Microsoft Research into products.“Our objective is to look at strategic needs and opportunitie...
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