In The Works: Windows For Supercomputers

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."

Comments

Wow! Spam servers to drool for!!

[smchris]

Yeah, this will be a step forward for mankind.

Requirements for Longhorn !?

[Frit Mock]

Wow, not even in my craziest dreams, I would have thought, that the requirements for Longhorn will be so insanly high! ;)

Re:The real problems with this...

[BlackLotus]

I think the biggest problem is just historical and cultural though. The scientific community has a 30 year history with Unix, is familiar with programming in that environment, and has a lot of legacy code that's written for it. They just aren't going to take to a windows environment easily at all.

I think the biggest problem is just historical and cultural though. The home users community has a 20 year history with windows, is familiar with programming in that environment, and has a lot of legacy code that's written for it. They just aren't going to take to a linux environment easily at all.

Does that mean we're doing all of this for nothing ?

Re:I guess Bill thinks it's time...

[NeoThermic]

Unless you run a S3 Inc. 86c968 [Vision 968 VRAM]. Installing Redhat on that system choked in a few seconds, as it detected 63 graphic cards in my system...

As if i could get 63 cards in one computer, considering that there are only 5 slots...

My best line from the error log:
(!!) More than one primary device found

So, currently its running XP, and so far, not a problem to boot.

NeoThermic