Microsoft has moved forward with its supercomputing technology for the automotive industry allowing extremely powerful servers to be desk-side.

This will offer more flexibility in product testing without having to take manual data and then transfer it to large computer rooms.

High Performance Computing (HPC) will automate previously arduous systems, detect defects within engineering and improve design collaboration.

John Fikany, vice president of the U.S. Manufacturing Industries at Microsoft, stated: "Throughout the auto industry, desk-side computing is empowering people to become ready for entirely new approaches to design, safety and profitability.

"We've harnessed a tremendous new energy source for creativity, collaboration and cost reduction, and to try to estimate its ultimate potential would be akin to trying to estimate the power of the human mind."

The Automotive design and engineering industry can now look into IT support areas for product testing that previously had to wait until the manufacturing stage. Finding faults using HCR will be far more productive and efficient.

The design stage of the process will also be improved with computer generated models and assembly variations all at the disposal of the designer to alter and tinker with.

Microsoft's white paper was published and presented at the Centre for Automotive Research Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Michigan. It marks a hectic week for Microsoft's research teams, which only recently presented a range of papers detailing new communication features for Vista.

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