Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) brings the supercomputing power of high-performance computing (HPC) to the desktop and workgroup level in a familiar Windows-based development environment. CCS accelerates time-to-insight by providing an HPC platform that is simple to deploy, operate, and integrate with existing infrastructure and tools.

The Microsoft Compute Cluster Pack (in other words, the second CD of the two CDs that make up Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003) can be purchased separately and will run on 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003 R2.