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Today, Microsoft released the first public beta of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, a server operating system and tools designed for the fast-growing high-performance computing (HPC) market. Microsoft also established the Parallel Computing Initiative, a program creating a set of common development tools across multicore desktops and clusters.

You can read more about it in The Manycore Shift White Paper. This paper describes how Microsoft and industry partners are working together to enable businesses, software and hardware vendors, and individuals to take advantage of the “manycore shift”.

Source: The Manycore Shift white paper

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If you'd like an overview of what you'll find in Visual Studio 2008, you should download a copy of the following white paper, which was updated for the Beta 2 release. It is available as a Word document, PDF, or XPS.

This white paper provides an overview of Visual Studio 2008 and how it delivers key advances in the following areas:

• Improve Developer Productivity
• Manage the Application Life Cycle
• Employ the Latest Technologies

 

Source: Visual Studio 2008 Overview White Paper

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For dealing with complexity of a different sort - enterprise architectures - see Roger Sessions' new white paper in the MSDN Library: A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise-Architecture Methodologies. I'm sure there are some parallels I can find with my problem (Managing Complexity) and ideas I can borrow. It's also interesting to see in his conclusion that it's less about choosing one methodology and more about mixing the right blend, much like software development methodologies.

Twenty years ago, a new field was born that soon came to be known as enterprise architecture. This paper covers a broad introduction to the field of enterprise architecture. Although the history of the field goes back 20 years, the field is still evolving—and rapidly so.

Source: A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise-Architecture Methodologies

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We just published v1.0.3 of the Visual Studio Team System Licensing white paper. This release contains 100% more information but with 50% less content to read. Minus the front matter, we've pared this down to 8.5 pages. We covered a lot of what-if scenarios in this release, with a focus on Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server licensing. In addition, this release is now available as a DOC, PDF and XPS - take your pick.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Licensing white paper

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