Microsoft yesterday announced the acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing, a parallel computing company aimed at simplifying "high end computing." According to a statement issued by Microsoft via its Windows Server blog,

ISC's products and technology enable faster prototyping, iteration, and deployment of large-scale parallel solutions, which is well aligned with our vision of making high performance computing and parallel computing easier, both on the desktop and in the cluster.

ISC CEO Bill Blake and others from the company's existing team will be moved to Microsoft's New England Research & Development Center in Cambridge, MA.