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CNET News: Microsoft Creating Windows for Supercomputers
May 25, 2004, 14 :30 UTC (37 Talkback[s]) (9389 reads)
(Other stories by Stephen Shankland and Ina Fried)

[ Thanks to Matt for this link. ]

"Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold.

"High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic machines from companies such as Cray, but the field is being remade by the arrival of clusters of low-end machines. While the trend could be considered an opportunity for Microsoft, which has long been the leading operating-system company, Linux has actually become the favored software used on these clusters..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
If We (As a Computing Community) don&#39 ...   What a Joke !!   
Jorge Adrian Salaices
May 25, 2004, 14:51:14  
They've got a snowball's chance ...   Snowball's chance...   
JaseP
May 25, 2004, 14:52:27  
They can hardly make a operating system ...   Windoze?   
mike
May 25, 2004, 15:12:14  
*** What a good idea. At least by then I ...   Please NO!   
Zoki
May 25, 2004, 15:15:52  
"Dozens of machines in a list of the 500 ...   So which 2 are they?   
Scott Knight
May 25, 2004, 15:16:43  
On a supercomputer, maybe Windows won&#3 ...   I look forward to it. . .   
Passacaglia
May 25, 2004, 15:27:53  
> Does anyone know which 2 are supposed ...   Re: So which 2 are they?   
Tony OBryan
May 25, 2004, 15:30:22  
will this HPC windows come with a HPC ve ...   what extras will it come with..   
pete
May 25, 2004, 15:37:13  
Its currently vapourware. Microsoft are ...   All hail the vapourware   
Richard Corfield
May 25, 2004, 15:37:57  
You are mis interpreting the thing:On th ...   Win Supercomputers   
me
May 25, 2004, 15:44:46  
I bet every major spammer on the planet ...   A spammers wet dream   
David McGuire
May 25, 2004, 15:46:48  
> Does anyone know which 2 are supposed ...   Re: So which 2 are they?   
Troy Baer
May 25, 2004, 15:57:57  
Great for simulating Armegeddon or falli ...   BSOD faster!   
BSOD faster!Uai Zass
May 25, 2004, 16:04:33  
Here we go again, the "embrace and exten ...   Embrace and Extend   
Joe Almeida
May 25, 2004, 16:22:22  
> Mission critical has not been there st ...   Re: Windoze?   
Art
May 25, 2004, 16:25:37  
My Windows 2000 machine at work, with a ...   Re: I look forward to it. . .   
kP
May 25, 2004, 16:29:43  
that's kind of thing that Chris Shar ...   Waste of Money   
Tang Kai
May 25, 2004, 16:41:52  
windows supercomputers?Isn't that th ...   windows and supercomputers?   
joel
May 25, 2004, 17:32:12  
This should be great. You buy your boxes ...   cost   
codeboy
May 25, 2004, 17:40:56  
So, you put a Microsoft OS on a superfas ...   Redefining Tera-flops   
Ken Jennings
May 25, 2004, 17:45:19  
"...the company is interested in two par ...   "Unused" computer time?   
Ken Jennings
May 25, 2004, 17:55:03  
G'Day !If I remember correctly, a co ...   Windows Clusters   
Jim Parker
May 25, 2004, 18:01:27  
> > Does anyone know which 2 are suppose ...   CTC track record? [was: So which 2 are they   
C. Chan
May 25, 2004, 18:02:27  
Mission critical has not been there stro ...   Re: Windoze?   
horne
May 25, 2004, 18:08:15  
Weatherman: (Highlights a square on a ra ...   I can see it now   
Josh
May 25, 2004, 18:32:24  
> "Dozens of machines in a list of the 5 ...   Re: So which 2 are they?   
JJS
May 25, 2004, 19:42:17  
Ok, so I was surfing too long. Here are ...   Re: Re: So which 2 are they?   
JJS
May 25, 2004, 20:04:14  
> > So, you put a Microsoft OS on a supe ...   Re: Redefining Tera-flops   
jp
May 25, 2004, 20:18:05  
lol, very funny :))I think that the clus ...   restartd   
madcow
May 25, 2004, 20:37:31  
they should put the monitors/screen in o ...   monitors and screen   
Xunil Ung
May 25, 2004, 22:45:21  
Yeah right!... with the BLUE SCREEN OF ...   ROFL!!! MS' Supercomputing?   
LeeNoox
May 25, 2004, 23:12:47  
Well, I'm running kernel 2.2.25, dow ...   Re: Re: I look forward to it. . .   
Passacaglia
May 26, 2004, 00:40:44  
I don't know a lot about Linux super ...   platforms ??   
anthony
May 26, 2004, 00:53:53  
Lets see. The cluster has 2000 nodes. ...   Reboot!   
Joe User
May 26, 2004, 05:26:00  
> http://www.ctc-hpc.com/services.html ( ...   Re: Re: Re: So which 2 are they?   
John Stracke
May 26, 2004, 13:52:21  
> Blue screens of death in the 11th hour ...   Re: Snowball's chance...   
John Stracke
May 26, 2004, 14:00:28  
G'day !I have never seen a cluster d ...   Re: Re: Snowball's chance...   
JIm Parker
May 27, 2004, 00:52:41  
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