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In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers

Posted by timothy on from the tough-row-to-hoe dept.

Robert Accettura writes "According to ZDNet, Microsoft may be feeling threatened by Linux gaining ground in the High Performance Computing (HPC) arena. As a result, they have formed a HPC group to bring windows to these systems. It makes a mention of how clustered computing may be a target. I guess the only thing better than crashing 1 computer at a time is crashing an entire room full at once."

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  1. Windows Clusters available now..... by stiggle · · Score: 5, Informative
    Windows doesn't cluster? So what about those that have ranked in the Top 500 list then that run Windows?

    In the November 2003 list....
    At 68 - a Windows based system at Cornell from Dell with 640 processors (it originally started out at 320 on the list with 252 processors).
    At 128 - a Windows based system in Korea with 400 processors.

    So Windows doesn't cluster?