Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Oil and Gas Industry Prefers Personal HPC Capacity, Says Microsoft
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Microsoft only had a brief moment on the Top 500 supercomputer list before
>| the machine was rebooted as a Linux cluster last fall.
> `----
>
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B2413430-EEAF-455C-9D85-706DC25D148D
>
> The experimental setup of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 in our Division
> has thus far been embarrassing, if not abysmal. It's like alpha release, so
> no wonder it's virtually free for the time being. They try to beat Linux
> using guinea pigs.
>
> Poor lads. How long before the team folds just like Zune, Origami and Live?
> This was Gates' vision, but he has left the building.
>
What really amused me in this article was the suggestion that
/researchers/ would be more familiar with Windows than with Linux - I
wonder why kind of *researchers* they would be? Perhaps the kind who
need another job?
The argument that they can beat linux by working Windows into the print
server and then the file server is amazing - this is precisely what
Linux did by being better and cheaper - how can windows be better and
cheaper?
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