Linked by David Adams on Tue 23rd Sep 2008 00:29 UTC
Microsoft just released Windows HPC Server 2008, with support for thousands of processors. A NYTimes article takes a closer look at Microsoft's ambitions in supercomputing, and current trends in the HPC field, where Microsoft has almost no current presence. Microsoft's strategy is probably a recognition that with the price of high-powered hardware decreasing, many new companies and organizations are finding application for high-powered systems, and they hope to be able to take a portion of that new business using people's familiarity with the Windows brand as a foot in the door.
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2006-10-01
From what I know of HPC, most of the really good code comes in the form of fortran. What work has Windows HPC server done with the fotran compiler?
Also, I've talked with people using clusters. Some tried Windows, only to find that it did not scale nearly as well as Linux did. Even considering that many houses that will pay for Windows licenses, if Linux just plain scales better they aren't going to use Windows.
That, and the fact that Microsoft is trying to change HPC to mean "High Productivity Computing" just seems to reek of a marketing department that smells money.
Edited 2008-09-23 02:15 UTC