Combined with ESI Group's solutions, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003 accelerates time-to-insight by providing an HPC platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools. As the initial ESI Group's simulation application covered through our partnership, PAM-CRASH 2G, combined with Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server's high-performance computing platform, provides an essential component of the crash and safety value chain.

CCS prescriptive setup procedures simplify network configuration, remote loading of nodes using Remote Installation Services (RIS), node configuration, and security setup. The integrated Job Scheduler, which can be accessed via command-line interface or through several APIs, provides for submitting and managing cluster workloads. CCS uses Active Directory integration to provide end-to-end user and security management, while the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) supports extensible snap-ins.  This integrated solution allows companies to leverage existing skills and technology for system and node management, workload management, user management and security. Microsoft’s development platform, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, supports parallel application development and debugging on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.