Yeah, that marketing slogan wasn't too great since it sounds like we're solely taking HPC mainstream. Ouch. Of course, that isn't the case.
Where would people on this list place the credit for HPC going mainstream? If I had to pick one source, which is unfair to do, it would be the rich array of applications that exist, from BLAST to Fluent, from Ganglia to LSF, from PERL to Matlab. Thanks for the feature requests, Joe. Ryan Waite Group Program Manager - HPC Microsoft Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Landman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:07 PM To: Douglas Eadline Cc: Erik Paulson; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! Douglas Eadline wrote: > I believe that if we do not protect against revisionist history, then [...] you mean like how now with WCCS2k+3 clustering and HPC is *now* (suddenly magically spontaneously) "mainstream" ? This is just something I personally take issue with. The entire explosive growth of clustering has driven HPC hard into the mainstream. This happened long before it was a glimmer in their eyes. 6+ years of explosive growth, going from noise in the statistics to dominating the statistics. Then along they came with WCCS2k+3. Their entry is late into the cycle. And if you listen to the comments of the senior execs, it makes one wonder how committed they are to HPC and clusters as compared to how committed they are to battling Linux. This is not to diminish their efforts. WCCS2k+3 is likely reasonably good for some subset of groups. Microsoft has some good people there, and playing with the W2k+3 x64 on our JackRabbit unit was fun. They still need a real POSIX subsystem, and hopefully, someday, they will give in, and get cygwin or mingw to be fully supported/shipping using their compilers/tools. Though I expect to see airborn and stable flight from porcine critters about the same time. Too bad, as that would likely ease adoption/porting issues. Tremendously. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
