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
You address my remark about HPC definitions, but leave unanswered my question about fortran compilers and scalability. Where is the answer? What are they doing about these concerns, concerns that are far more real then the one about definitions?
That and every bit of literature I've seen referring to HPC calls it High Performance Computing. Except for after Microsoft hijacked the term. Prove me wrong.
Edited 2008-09-23 14:46 UTC