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Windows for supercomputers: How fast can your computer crash?
Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro; posted on Monday, May 24, 2004
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Apologies for the derision in the title :-) Here's some breaking news from Stephen Shankland and Ina Fried:
``Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold.
``High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic machines from companies such as Cray, but the field is being remade by the arrival of clusters of low-end machines. While the trend could be considered an opportunity for Microsoft, which has long been the leading operating-system company, Linux has actually become the favored software used on these clusters.
``Now Microsoft has begun its response, forming its High Performance Computing team and planning a new OS version called Windows Server HPC Edition. Kyril Faenov is director of the effort, and Microsoft is hiring new managers, programmers, testers and others.''
Full story at New.com:
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+creating+Windows+for+supercomputers/2100-7337-5219282.html
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