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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Re:I run several Windows Clusters

[mpapet]

Hmmm... Reasonable eh?

1. The url provided has no prices whatsoever. Imagine that!

2. What are the license constraints in this academic pricing? You know, razors are darn cheap compared to the price of razor blades. That first line of coke is pretty cheap too.

I know the price of my preferred clusters, $0. Usage constraints? None. http://debianclusters.cs.uni.edu/index.php/Main_Page