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Microsoft Competes In Supercomputer Market
HoboMaster writes "Microsoft is releasing a public beta of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 in their first attempt to compete in the supercomputer OS market. Gates is planned to speak at the 2005 Supercomputer Conference, which will be Microsoft's first appearance at the conference. Gates, as always, has high hopes for this new version of Windows, even claiming it to be as powerful and easier to use than Linux."
so its super blue screen(s) of death
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"easier to use than Linux"
Yes? Where is the part about the high hopes for this operating system?
I think he might own some Microsoft stock.
... well for me, it was clusterfuck.
The Opteron AMD processor is going into CRAY Supercomputers, so it only makes sense that Microsoft start making Windows for those AMD computers. What's next, a Beowulf cluster of Bill Gates?
Oh You POS
Unfortunately, it takes a supercomputer to calculate that answer.
... as we'll undoubtedly need a cluster to actually run Vista.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
The question is, how much will your average cluster be spending on Norton as a result of this?
I'm pretty sure supercomputers are about performance.
And if my grandmother had wheels she would be a trolley.
The Puppy Linux distro makes an absolute joke of Windows XP....
Since when is another OS required for Windows to be joke?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Blue Screens Per Second
Come on now. You and I both know that's BS.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
Specially if it comes bundled with Microsoft Visual Basic for Supercomputing - Science Edition, allowing any computer-illiterate scientist to easily put together simulations without needing to care about multiple-processor optimizations. It will have ready-to-use MSAtomicNuclei.ocx, MSAtmosphere.dll, etc.
You only need to go: Create a form. Drag the AtomView object to the form.
Dim MyAtom(1E100)
For i = 1 to 1E100
My Atom(i) = MSAtom.new(x,y)
Next
Atom(0).Nucleus.Split
Who wants to learn C, and all those threads things??
7 is obviously BSOD.
I don't think 'botnets are commonly considered to be supercomputers.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
This is great news, I've always had difficulty interfacing with my supercomputer. Now even Aunt Tilly will be able to run simulations of nuclear explosions!
It's the army of bicycling paper clips, ready to do my bidding, that I look forward to.
... oh, never mind.
I, for one, welcome our
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Now we get to have clippy bugging our scientists. I'm sure they'll love having to click "Just start predicting the weather" every time they launch Microsoft Weather 2003.
...when you need to run MS Word really, really fast.
It's kind of like the way the GUI opened up computing to a lot of people who found a command line interface daunting, to say the least.
Superclippy: It seems you're trying to factor large prime numbers. Would you like to engage the Microsoft Compute Cluster interface?
> You want to run an interpreted language on a supercomputer? Why not hitch a pony up to a Porsche?
Sorry, you're right. Why would anyone run poorly designed, bloated, unsuited software that could make even the fastest hardware seem slow?
They spent billions to make a new Windows which turned out to need a supercomputer to run, and now they are desperately trying to find customers.