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CAPS has announced that its HMPP compiler now supports Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2008.

Based on GPU programming and tuning directives, HMPP offers an incremental programming model that allows developers with different levels of expertise to fully exploit GPU hardware accelerators in their legacy code.

The newly announced Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 provides HMPP customers with a familiar environment and rich tool-set that enables developers and HPC professionals to spend less time coping with complex technologies. Windows HPC Server makes it even easier to bring the power of technical computing to analysts, engineers and scientists, giving them the computation resources they need to fuel product innovation and accelerate time-to-market.

"CAPS provides valuable solutions for manycore programming. By coupling their products and expertise with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, CAPS is extending those capabilities to a much broader audience of technical computing users," said Bill Hamilton, director of technical computing at Microsoft. "Together, we help ensure our joint customers make the most of technical computing power and rapidly advance HPC solutions."

"Since 2009, CAPS has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and a proven ability to meet Microsoft customers' needs. HMPP support of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 as well as Visual Studio 2008 is a great achievement: these tools combination provides the developer a fast and easy way to port applications onto GPU-based architectures," said Denis Gerrer, in charge of Microsoft partnership at CAPS.