Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Released

grammar fascist writes "According to an Information Week article, on Friday Microsoft released Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003." From the article: "The software is Microsoft's first to run parallel HPC applications aimed at users working on complex computations... 'High-performance computing technology holds great potential for expanding opportunities... but until now it has been too expensive and too difficult for many people to use effectively,' said Bob Muglia, senior vice president of [Microsoft's] Server and Tools Business unit, in a statement."

Comments

and what is new about?????

[proudhawk]

uh gee. I think linux, BSD, solaris and others
had HPC capability years ago.

it took Microsoft long enough, huh?

Most programmers who use HPC

[Epeeist]

are not going to be bothered about pointy-clicky interfaces. They will be running highly complex, custom programs that use standard parallelisation libraries. If they want graphics it will be in terms of rendered output.

The last thing they need is a pointy-clicky interface chewing up cycles that would be better used for computation.

Re:2003=2006?

[MadTinfoilHatter]

It would have been quite misleading if they'd passed it off as " Windows Compute Cluster Server 2006".

...or Windows ClusterFsck Edition. Oh wait, that's Vista. Nevermind.

Re:Missing the point a bit?

[nietsch]

So actually you are not one of those plentyfull VS programmers that you can pick up by the dozen at the local community college? ANd you have never worked professionally with this super-easy VS that makes programming so easy that even stupid managers can understand it?
Somehow I don't think it is a suprise that you blindly copy MS-FUD.
There is no magic bullet when it comes to programming. You cannot develop smart programs with dumb people. You may wish you could, but that is probably because you are one of them.