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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. Finally by PhasmatisApparatus · · Score: -1, Troll

    Something that can run Vista! But not Aero. They had to revert to the Server (2008) edition.

  2. Re:One thing jumped out by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1, Troll

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

  3. Idiot PHBs will buy this junk...sigh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Great...now even supercomputers can suffer from BSOD, viruses, trojans, etc. Yep, I sure wanna buy one of those...NOT. Only idiot PHBs, etc. will buy this junk.

  4. Windows and Supercomputer mutually exclusive. by Jason1729 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  5. Re:hardly news by Windows_NT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ha! maybe in safe-mode

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  6. Re:hardly news by Tom · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  7. Re:BSOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It comes at you so fast

    Now cut the thing some slack, it's very young and unexperienced. This will correct itself with time.

    Also, purple cum - the joys of virtual sex!

  8. Re:Too dinosaurs working together. by BluenoseJake · · Score: 0, Troll

    "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.

  9. Re:Well, since you posted it twice..... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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