From the Director

“XCG unifies our research and incubation efforts to develop radical new approaches to computing hardware, and reliable, secure exascale software systems.

Simply put, our charter is to rethink the nature of computing at extreme scale, from alternative, quantum computing models, through the transformative effects of manycore parallelism on programming systems and architectures, through massive cloud computing infrastructure designs that drive consumer, business and social applications. As the name suggests, “extreme” computing focuses on moving beyond the current limits of computing and reshaping our fundamental assumptions and practices. It also includes aggressively engaging academia and government agencies on Microsoft technologies for research and production, as well as selected government policy engagement.

Our team will explore far-ranging research ideas, and we will also validate them aggressively via rapid, large-scale prototyping and testing. This ability to prototype and validate our ideas at scale will be critical for enabling us to transfer technologies into production — within Microsoft, with external hardware partners and with government and academia. This breadth, from research conception to validated technology transfer, is the reason for building this combined organization. The whole of our team is far greater than the sum of its parts.”

— Dan Reed, Corporate Vice President, eXtreme Computing Group

Our Focus

• Cloud Computing Futures
• Incubation
  • Security and Cryptography Incubations
  • System Incubation
  • Many-Core Applications Incubation
  • Station Q

Careers

Learn about career opportunities with the eXtreme Computing Group.