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Windows Breaks Into Supercomputer Top 10

Posted by timothy on from the adversity-breeds-strength-in-redmond-too dept.

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."

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  1. From the article, pricing is by joeflies · · Score: 5, Informative

    "With the release of HPC Server 2008 a few weeks ago, Microsoft also offered an academic version priced at $15 per node to generate interest. By comparison, a commercial license runs $450 per node"

  2. Re:Off topic, but I have to mention it by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, just because I'm strange I had to go and figure it out.

    A C64, according to this guy runs at about 320 flops.

    So, it would take that C64 600*10^9 / 320 = 1,875,000,000 seconds. That's 59.46 years.

    Wiki says there were 30 million C64 units ever made.

    So that would be 1,875,000,000 seconds / 30,000,000 = 62.5 seconds.

    It would take every single C64 ever made about a minute to make up the difference.

    Wow.

    Crap I'm old. =)

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  3. Windows systems are in top500 are declining by Lennie · · Score: 5, Informative

    What's missing in the article is that there are only a few windows-based systems in the top500 and there numbers have been declining over the years.

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