[Beowulf] FYI: HPC Server 2008 hits top 25

[Galen Arnold]

linux
#14 at 1st appearance on top500 at : http://www.top500.org/list/2007/11/100

windows
#23 at 2nd appearance on top500: http://www.top500.org/list/2008/06/100

compare the performance numbers...you didn't see anything.

Galen Arnold
system engineer
NCSA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter St. John" <peter.st.john at gmail.com>
To: "I Kozin (Igor)" <i.kozin at dl.ac.uk>
Cc: Beowulf at beowulf.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:54:05 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] FYI: HPC Server 2008 hits top 25

MS isn't famous for new development (as scientists see "new development")
but a few hundred engineers would not be such a big investment for them.

I'd be more interested in a comparison of that many whatever, quad core
xeon? running linux vs MS's running Cluster Server 2008. CP/M could be a
pretty powerful OS if it ran on enough nodes :-) and of course I think of XP
as CP/M v.99 (approximately) (although that isn't fair to VMS, the forebear
of NT)

Peter

On 6/24/08, Kozin, I (Igor) <i.kozin at dl.ac.uk> wrote:
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> > In fact, the world's largest software company currently employs
> hundreds  of
> > engineers whose sole job it is to conceptualize and develop new
> products for
> > the burgeoning HPC market
>
>
> Oh, really? I hardly see any truth in this sentence.
> Perhaps "the world's largest"?
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