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Microsoft creating Windows for supercomputers
05.27.2004 @ 11:28 PM PT | Marc Erickson
“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.”I wonder if Microsoft understands that you really can’t (that is, it’s very difficult) to reboot these machines to apply a security patch…
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