Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @03:23AM from the class-envy dept.

An anonymous reader links to an eWeek story which says that Microsoft's "fastest-yet homegrown supercomputer, running the U.S. company's new Windows HPC Server 2008, debuted in the top 25 of the world's top 500 fastest supercomputers, as tested and operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. ... Most of the cores were made up of Intel Xeon quad-core chips. Storage for the system was about 6 terabytes," and asks "I wonder how the uptime compares? When machines scale to this size, they tend to quirk out in weird ways."

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Questions by Bazman · 2008-06-24 03:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Anyone know the fastest Windows HPC cluster *not* built by Microsoft purely as a marketing exercise to say 'look we can do HPC?'. And that actually gets used.
How does a Windows HPC cluster present itself? Do you submit batch jobs from a GUI?