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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. Guns for kids by dr.+electron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Next logical step is probably:
    Guns made safe for children!

  2. Google by BenBenBen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This was touched on earlier but not fully expanded; Google isn't a search engine. It isn't a portal, or a SP, or even a web engine. It's an operating system, deisgned to run on thousanmds of servers, be self-healing etc etc. There's much more about this back here Cue, MS scalable OS for clusters. The first rule of "embrace and extend" is working out what to embrace, and I think they hit the nail on the head.

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