Richard and Greg talk to Pedro Manfredi from Microsoft about High Performance Computing. HPC is the next generation of supercomputing - using off-the-shelf hardware rather than custom built supercomputers. Pedro digs into the new style of applications that are best served with HPC and how development is done. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/hpc for more information.

	Pedro is a Microsoft veteran currently Sr. Technical Evangelist managing Global ISVs with the Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism team. Before joining DPE, he held several position at Microsoft: Architect Evangelist, Principal Consultant, Technical Account Specialist, and Support Engineer.