Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster 216
An anonymous reader links to an eWeek story which says that Microsoft's "fastest-yet homegrown supercomputer, running the U.S. company's new Windows HPC Server 2008, debuted in the top 25 of the world's top 500 fastest supercomputers, as tested and operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. ... Most of the cores were made up of Intel Xeon quad-core chips. Storage for the system was about 6 terabytes," and asks "I wonder how the uptime compares? When machines scale to this size, they tend to quirk out in weird ways."
finally (Score:5, Funny)
Enough power to run vista.
Linux? (Score:4, Funny)
But does it run linux?
Re:finally (Score:5, Funny)
Enough power to run vista.
Every Tuesday... (Score:5, Funny)
"Your cluster has just finished downloading an update, would you like to reboot now?"
Re:finally (Score:4, Funny)
mmm that may make a very nice addition to my botnet. Wonder what it has for network bandwidth?
That's ok... (Score:5, Funny)
Welcome Windows! (Score:5, Funny)
And with the easily affordable CALs, up to 11 users will be able to use it at the same time! (well 8, 2 CALs will prolly be used by junior admins, and one for "test")
Quirk Out? (Score:4, Funny)
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But why?! (Score:2, Funny)
Ask Ballmer . . . (Score:2, Funny)
How does a Windows HPC cluster present itself? Do you submit batch jobs from a GUI?
. . . maybe with a tossed chair . . . ?
BSOD (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:finally (Score:5, Funny)
But you still have to turn off Aero.
Only because they cut some corners and went with integrated graphics on the motherboard.
New clippy quotes (Score:5, Funny)
"It looks like you're breaking into the top 25 fastest supercomputers. Would you like me to fix that?"
Obligatory... (Score:4, Funny)
Should be enough for everyone.
"Windows HPC Cluster" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I run several Windows Clusters (Score:4, Funny)
Re:finally (Score:1, Funny)
How quick does it BSOD?
Re:finally (Score:4, Funny)
If one of these is expected to be networked in normal operation, perhaps it would be reasonable to require that antivirus software be running while doing benchmarks?
Obvious Application Software (Score:3, Funny)
There's an obvious application [xkcd.com] to run on a Windows cluster.
Re:finally (Score:5, Funny)
"Windows has reported an error:
Cluster:fucked
Press any key on any terminal to reboot"
Re:finally (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, this thing could ray trace Crysis.