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Unholy Matrimony? Microsoft and Cray

Posted by timothy on from the sick-of-so-called-supercomputers-running-linux dept.

fetusbear writes with a ZDNet story that says "'Microsoft and Cray are set to unveil on September 16 the Cray CX1, a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008. The pair is expected to tout the new offering as "the most affordable supercomputer Cray has ever offered," with pricing starting at $25,000.' Although this would be the lowest cost hardware ever offered by Cray, it would also be the most expensive desktop ever offered by Microsoft."

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  1. What's the frame rate and resolution? by tjstork · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, come on, this thing's probably gotta play some pretty good games....

    Let's see Toms Hardware and Anandtech put one of these babies through their paces!

    My question is, how big does your Word document have to be for it to take a second to scroll from the top to the bottom of the document.

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    1. Re:What's the frame rate and resolution? by azzy · · Score: 5, Funny

      But will it run Vista?

    2. Re:What's the frame rate and resolution? by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

      Like the linux kernel developers are any better...every OS maker is greedy about increased CPU power. I first ran Linux in 1995 and it isn't that much faster now.

      It would be if you'd upgraded your machine.

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    3. Re:What's the frame rate and resolution? by zerocool^ · · Score: 4, Funny

      I hear it'll play Crysis on Medium.

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    4. Re:What's the frame rate and resolution? by jannesha · · Score: 5, Funny

      It would be if you'd upgraded your machine.

      ...what?! But that would reset his uptime!

  2. The Microsoft Tax by Serenissima · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, now even with buying a supercomputer we have to pay the Microsoft tax. We should sign a petition for them to sell the computers with Linux on them. Then we can drop the price to $24,900. That's WAY better.

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  3. Ah, so THIS is what Vista is supposed to run on. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    n/t

  4. hardly news by Tom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh please. This really isn't "news for nerds". Maybe news for fools, but all of us here have known for months that this would be coming. I mean, what else can you imagine that would run Vista smoothly?

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    1. Re:hardly news by onefriedrice · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ssh. Your silly facts are not welcome here. Why do you want to rain on our MS/Vista-bashing parade, huh?

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  5. Finally by Wireless+Joe · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll be able to run Crysis and Prince of Persia at the same time.

  6. Antivirus by tsa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet Symantec Antivirus can get it on its knees.

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    1. Re:Antivirus by rvw · · Score: 4, Funny

      I bet Symantec Antivirus can get it on its knees.

      In these kind of deals, they start off the other way around!

  7. BSOD by alta · · Score: 3, Funny

    This thing is able to generate the BSOD faster than anything you've EVER imagined.

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    1. Re:BSOD by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

      It comes at you so fast, the BSOD is blue shifted to purple.

    2. Re:BSOD by outriding9800 · · Score: 5, Funny

      They have gone to Plaid!

    3. Re:BSOD by IronChef · · Score: 4, Funny

      I came to this thread for +5 Funnies like I couldn't even imagine.

      I was not disappointed.

  8. Re:Too dinosaurs working together. by kidde_valind · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since the machine in question isn't even a supercomputer, but simply a cluster of blades, I'd say Cray has nothing to worry about.

  9. And yes, here's a couple jokes by Captain+Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone else has probably done the usual "how fast can a Cray show a BSoD?" gags, so all I was left with was:

    • "It looks like you're trying to solve complex multidimensional calculus to model atomic explosions! Need some help?"
    • "Hi, I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC. And here's my 30-foot-tall friend, Big Cray, The Destroyer of Worlds. Kill, Big Cray, Kill!"
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  10. Re:Non-useless link by bmajik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got a 503: Unavailable. These guys should get a Cray or something to run their webserver on

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  11. Re:Too dinosaurs working together. by 74nova · · Score: 3, Funny

    what about On a Machine like yours that has the Shift key Randomly Come on?

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  12. Oh I don't know... by Arcturax · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure I could configure a Mac Pro that costs more than that, and it will run Windows too.

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