Want to extend the useful economic life of your PC - get a compute cluster HPC server... With many new technologies people rave about the technology but forget the business case that drives compelling event and the purchase - this post looks at recent examples of how UK customers have justified their purchases of HPC clusters with Windows CCS.

So in my meetings with partners and customers to date it has been patently clear that there is pent up demand from many types of power users for more computing power. Whatsmore it is also clear that this power is not required all of the time and should be a shared resource for all types of users from researchers, engineers and marketing analysts to financial modellers, insurance liability assessors and academics. In one particular example, a UK business was stifling up to 20 workstations whilst critical modelling analysis was carried out. The business case, for them was based on incremental productivity and releasing those slave workstations allowing the users to get on with their normal day to day tasks - hard to believe but true!

On another note if you are intrigued about the new Office System then check out my colleague Chris Parkes' new blog at:

http://blogs.technet.com/chrisp/default.aspx

Enjoy!