If you want to know how reliable and scalable Hyper-V is, here is a quick list of Hyper-V statistics.

• 40% of www.microsoft.com runs on Hyper-V
• MSDN and TechNet web sites are completely running on Hyper-V
• Nearly 150 customers of Microsoft are using it in production as part of early adoption program
• Test figures have shown that I/O performance under Hyper-V is 90-97% of native performance
• Microsoft partner QLogic has achieved a throughput of 180,000 I/O per second for a storage device through Hyper-V

Of course there is more. This URL can give you more detailed information

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Fastestever-Windows-HPC-Cluster/

This is indeed a moment of pride for me as an employee of Microsoft. Microsoft is a late entrant to the High Performance Computing (HPC) space. We released the first version of our HPC solution called Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) approximately two years back and today we are in the beta 2 stage of version 2 of it. The new version is called Windows HPC Server 2008 is due to release sometime later this year. And a solution built using beta version is already ranked # 23. Wow! The days ahead are going to be more exciting.

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