Back to the articleHeh. #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 12:33 GMT
Microsoft's 'proven' software. Almost as funny as the idea of a supercomputer running Windows; kind of like a 500bhp go kart.
MS trains eye on supercomputing with HPC Server 2008
Err..... #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 12:33 GMT
"We believe that Windows HPC Server 2008 and IBM System x hardware will significantly expand the high-performance computing market,"
only to be shrunk back down by another hole in IE HPC version. How can we take them seriously when each node needs to run antivirus software and be rebooted once a month because of patch Tuesday?
Expensive! #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 12:33 GMT
At $475 *per node* MS has a lot of persuading to do. We're currently running CentOS/Sun Grid Engine on 30+ nodes, which works out $15k cheaper!
It may sell on all-in-one solutions like the Cray, but with bespoke clusters they're going to struggle. I doubt Windows HPC has the scalability and flexibility of Linux-based systems.
Yet another new language #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 20:10 GMT
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/092208-microsoft-windows-hpc.html?t51hb
Microsoft also is touting integration with Visual Studio Team Services, and F#, a development language, designed to help write new applications and rewrite old ones for parallel computing environments.
Yet Another Microsoft Language?
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