spinynorman Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 Bob Muglia, senior vice president of server and tools for Microsoft, announced the public availability of the beta version of Windows Compute Cluster 2003 at the vendor's conference in Barcelona today, saying it will take on Linux and Unix in their traditional homeland - very high-end machines and groups of machines. Read more at The Register. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 15, 2005 Report Share Posted November 15, 2005 Open source has had far more people working on these project for much longer. It's too little too late from MS if you ask me, clusters run Linux and no one else can keep up with the open source development model, especially not when the headstart is this huge. Of course, open source is easily nicked... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Heh.. I really really shudder at the price and the (lack of) reliability of these Windows cluster. Anyway, have you seen the newest top 500 Supercomputer machine list yet? Not a Windows machine in sight, while Linux takes almost 3/4 in numbers and more than 50% in power. http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/l/Operating_System Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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