Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster

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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I got to test Server 2008 before it was released to the public. All our internal applications identified 2008 as "Vista".

I have no idea why this is modded Informative.

Vista uses the NT kernel, version 6.0, build 6000. SP1 puts it up to 6001.
Server 2008 uses the NT kernel, version 6.0, build 6001.

Is it any surprise that software build prior to Server 2008 being released see it as Vista?

In related news, both Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9 report being Linux v2.6.