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Re: Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores

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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Tuesday 17 Nov 2009 17:20 : \____

> JEDIDIAH pulled this Usenet boner:
> 
>> On 2009-11-16, Mr. Majestic <Majestic2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx>
>>>> 
>>>> Our faculty tried it as the time as it was a massive fail. Microsoft gave
>>>> it away for free or something. What a fail.
>>>
>>> Does this moron know what clustered SQL servers are about running on Win
>>> 2k3 servers, Win 2k8 servers or Win 7 servers?
> 
> Bwahahahaha.
> 
>> ...that would be for something like basic failover and data federation.
> 
> Exactly.  Microsoft's original clustering implementation was (and is) a
> complete misnomer, a marketing lie.  It is failover.  In no way is it a way
> to distribute the computing load.
> 
>> That has about as much to do with serious clustering as a bicycle has to
>> do with serious freight transport with trains or 18-wheelers.
> 
> And even Microsoft failover doesn't behave as advertised.  The notification
> for a resource recovery would come in and... you still had to wait a few
> seconds before you could actually access the resource.

3 letters: L S E.

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