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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. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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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