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Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. finally by gmack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Enough power to run vista.

    1. Re:finally by Sabz5150 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Enough power to run vista.

      But not Crysis :(
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    2. Re:finally by TRS80NT · · Score: 5, Funny

      But you still have to turn off Aero.


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  2. Every Tuesday... by kwabbles · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Your cluster has just finished downloading an update, would you like to reboot now?"

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  3. That's ok... by JCSoRocks · · Score: 5, Funny

    So does everyone else.

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  4. Welcome Windows! by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 5, Funny

    And with the easily affordable CALs, up to 11 users will be able to use it at the same time! (well 8, 2 CALs will prolly be used by junior admins, and one for "test")

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