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Windows Cluster Edition

Posted by Zonk on from the supercomputing-through-the-window dept.

eth8686 writes "Microsoft is aiming to have its first cluster version of Windows ready in time for a supercomputing conference this fall." From the article: "The next version of the Compute Cluster edition will extend to Microsoft's .Net programming infrastructure, letting developers write software using the C# programming language, he said."

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  1. Re:What is the point? by danheskett · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Says who? It certainly is/will be easier but more secure is something that has yet to be proven. To date, the track record is not impressive.

    C has a really crappy track record of being secure actually. As does C++. Fundamentally, they are just fine. In practice, just about ever buffer overflow exploit around was enabled at least partly because the developers were sloppy and used unchecked buffers. This is not possible in C# or other .NET langauges.

    Ah, the fast food approach to software design. Don't you know that stuff makes you code obese and causes an early demise necessitating frequent checkups?

    Right, and like Apple and the Linux worlds have never rushed anything to get something market?

    You guys have the right idea in that cluster computing is going to be a bigger market than it currently is, but you have to be more hungry and learn again how to ship software that creates desire and meets your customers needs in a timely fashion.

    You contradict yourself. MS is sensing demand for Windows software that can cluster without much modification. Okay, so they are getting a product ready to do that, and working on getting other features that competitors have ramped up for future versions. It's called having a plan. You can't release a product that is on par with 5 or 10 year established competitors at the 1.0 level.

    And I imagine you know this! What version of Mac OS X are we at now? 10.3.x? How come 10.3.x wasn't ready when 10.x.x was ready? Huh? Huh? Huh? If Apple can't deliver features people want in a timely manner...

    Software is incremental. You can't skip straight to exactly everything everyone wants. You have to go through the iterations, whether you want to or not. That's just the bottom line!

    Finally, a last note. You note about locking you into a Microsoft paradigm. The people this is targted to are users of MS software already.