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Windows Breaks Into Supercomputer Top 10
yanx0016 writes "Wow, that's some news this week at SuperComputing 08. Apparently Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, with a Chinese hardware OEM (Dawning), made #10 on the Top500 list, edging out #11 by only 600 Gflops. Folks were shocked to see Microsoft getting so serious around HPC; I think we are only beginning to see a glimpse of Microsoft in the HPC field."
...and I thought "hey, that's not news. I've known that for years!"
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I like how they quote "police" force.
may $deity help us if it gets infected...
This is china. Don't you know that this copy of Windows was Pirated!
Shortly after coming online, they noticed that it broke a speed record downloading "instructions" from abilena.podolsk-mo.ru
Then all you get is, "It looks like you're decoding the human genome. Would you like some help?"
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to run Windows 7.
Can you imagine a chair being thrown through the system administrator's window?
and 500 screens showing "allow or deny?"
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
For once, a computer that deserves the "Vista capable" sticker.
Actually, Microsoft has an interesting idea here, to integrate a high performance computer installation with Windows client software such as Excel. Of course, there's no reason at all the back end supercomputer has to be running Windows, other than the fact that Microsoft will sell you the complete software stack, presumably through system integrators.
Frankly, I don't see why you'd want to do that, but obviously this is out of the box thinking. Maybe they see some application area for this, such as financial services, that is untapped, although if that's the case their timing is not fortuitous...
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That's just their testing machine for Windows 7. Hardware up people.
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Can you imagine a botnet of those?
I can.
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Integrating HPC with office apps? Wow, Excel really doesn't hold that much data to need a HPC to process it. Maybe if you're processing millions of Excel files filled to capacity that might be a different story...
But does it run Linux?
FLOPS and MIPS are all very well, but if the OS is pissing them away then it does not matter much.
(Interviewing MS HPC Program Manager)
"Well, yeah it does stuff! Just look. You've got it all right here...Word, Excel, even Access. And just wait until you see how fast the cards fly when you win Solitaire!"
And you expect to find that in a Microsoft product?
Did you ever see the hippos doing the Dance of the Hours in Disney's Fantasia? It's like that.
nobody in their right mind would let Windows in willingly.
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hmm..I must inform you sir, that I find it offensive that YOU imply they cheat....I am incensed to inform you, that they DO NOT cheat...EVER...they just lie until they get caught, and then they kill a sacrificial plant manager to show they are concerned about their exports... geez...get it right...
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So how many gigaflops does Norton Antivirus use on that puppy?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Did they measure the performance with or without effect of antivirus software?
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Now wouldn't it be awesome if they wiped Windows and install Linux after all the PR people leave?
To do list for Windows
Well I bet the OS boasts one visually impressive BSoD.
Really, I thought windows was for dummies. (hint, everyone should agree and nod in confusion as to why there is a supercomputer running windows)
So why does anybody need a cluster of MS Windows servers to run MS Exchange so that people can merely read their email?
If MS can rake up a machine to hit Nr 10 in the performance stakes why can't it make a regular server that can cope with the BAU workloads of medium-sized businesses?
And even *that* computer doesn't run Vista...
(yeah, I know, but still)