MS heads for HPC

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Wed May 26 00:22:40 CDT 2004


On Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:11 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:

> "According to ZDNet, Microsoft may be feeling threatened by Linux gaining
> ground in the High Performance Computing (HPC) arena. As a result, they
> have formed a HPC group to bring windows to these systems. It makes a
> mention of how clustered computing may be a target. I guess the only thing
> better than crashing 1 computer at a time is crashing an entire room full
> at once." 

Remember the MS Exchange Cluster that RoadRunner KC tried to upgrade without a 
rollback image?  They were down for WEEKS!

You know you'd have job security doing Windows clustering, but being between 
an irate CEO and MS Tech Support's Hold Queue is not fun.




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