[Beowulf] Why I want a microsoft cluster...

Greg Lindahl lindahl at pathscale.com
Wed Nov 23 12:25:43 PST 2005


On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:49:09AM -0800, Jim Lux wrote:

> The scenario is that I want to run some sort of analysis tool that is 
> computationally intensive enough to require more crunch than I can get with 
> a single desktop.

Maybe what you want is a "cluster appliance", not a Windows cluster.
Fully integrated with a Windows desktop. Then it doesn't matter what
OS the appliance runs; lots of Windows shops have equipment that runs
Linux.

-- greg




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