Unholy Matrimony? Microsoft and Cray

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."

Comments

Re:One thing jumped out

[Dog-Cow]

This might have been funny if Windows 2008 wasn't the server version of Vista. But then again, probably not.

Windows and Supercomputer mutually exclusive.

[Jason1729]

So with windows bloat, won't this thing perform slightly slower than a Pentium 66 running the latest Ubuntu live CD? And does MS still charge per CPU? That $25,000 could be just for the OS.

Re:hardly news

[Windows_NT]

Ha! maybe in safe-mode

Re:hardly news

[Tom]

Actually, I think that careful one-minute fade-in of the startup screen might be smooth on that configuration, but it's not the kind of "smooth" I had in mind.

Re:Too dinosaurs working together.

[BluenoseJake]

"And spell check, for f*@&s sake." I'm sorry, could you spell check that second last word? I didn't understand it, and I have an inane need to point out other peoples mistakes to increase my own sense of self worth.

Re:Well, since you posted it twice.....

[Kadin2048]

People bash Microsoft because they've managed to do something that many of us who've been around for a while thought was impossible: they produced an OS so architecturally ugly, it makes Unix -- the system that inspired "Worse is Better" -- seem elegant by comparison.