If you have attended the Windows Azure for Research training, have received an award through the RFP program, or are just curious about Windows Azure, we believe you will find this content useful. The information in these papers is applicable to Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems.
We will also feature case studies of successful projects, to illustrate the architecture and technologies used to solve cloud-scale problems in various research fields. These papers cover a range of topics, including application migration best practices in scaling, compute, storage, web applications, and services processing of big data and utilization of high performance computing (HPC), Microsoft Excel, Microsoft business intelligence aids, and other open-source and Microsoft tools-all from a technical computing user’s perspective. In addition, we’ve released the training material online, along with a set of technical papers designed specifically to help researchers quickly get started with Windows Azure.
