The Windows Compute Cluster Edition (CCE) team is looking to fill some pretty exciting open slots in the product and in the test team for CCE. If you go to www.microsoft.com/jobs and enter HPC as keyword you should find quite a few open positions (You bet we will ship the stuff early 2006!). Most of the jobs are in Redmond, WA. This is your opportunity to join an extremely motivated team of very smart girls and guys working on Microsoft latest addition to the Windows Server family. In case you a...

They feel the heat. Even though I am not too fond of projects like Windows apps and Win4Lin on Linux on Xen but it is pretty obvious that Virtualization is the way to go. Informationweek : “VMware, a unit of EMC, announced Monday that several industry...

The compute cluster stuff is getting more and more visibility outside and inside Microsoft. With the new Windows Compute Cluster Edition ( CCE ) shipping early next year, Microsoft increases efforts in getting the word out about the first version about...

According to the Windows blog in Informationweek , "Advanced Micro Devices got its start in the server market by supplying 64-bit processors for use as the guts in Linux-based computers. Now, AMD's stake in the ground is working to Microsoft's advantage...

Why do you have to register to read one article ? I hate to register for just one article. Have you had a chance to read it? Is it worth the registration hassle? Thx.

You will love this . From PCStats : "PCStats thought it would be interesting to see how overclocking is affected on the WindowsXP x64 Edition platform by illustrating both 32-bit and 64-bit benchmarks for an AMD Athlon64 4000+ based system. Would the...

Some time ago I read and wrote about Dell could/would/might/think about supporting the Apple OS. Today I found this beauty. Certainly not the Apple style but a real progress in Dell design. I like the design AND the technical data (of course it's 64-bit...

So much going on in 64-bit Windows land in the first 2 days of this week already. Some of the pretty exciting news: Simulation is one of the areas where applications can really shine in 64-bit. Masses of memory and compute power at hand. One of the...

Who needs The 4400 if you can have The 5000+. Marcello over at hp counts over 5k applications available on hp Integrity servers. Nice. How many are on Windows? Can we see the list?

Thrilling, at first. Then I found out how " easy " it is to install the stuff. Something every administrator will love to do in order to support consolidation in his datacenter. Don’t you think? Hypervisor technology and OS awareness of virtualization...

Baahhh. The question is, is Mighty Mouse also Windows compatible? And is there a 64-bit driver? Or does the Microsoft mouse driver do the trick? I definitely want one.

We're getting there. Download the latest Service Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 here .

What's he talking about? It is not at all that bad. I found already quite a few comments on other websites and in blogs referring to this misleading article. Don’t know what Mr. McMillan had for breakfast and why he tries to tell us we have to wait another...

IE7 Beta 1 is not supposed to work with XP x64. XP x86 SP2 and Vista only. What kind of message does this send to our partners and customers? "Wait for Beta 2." "Well we've done what we could and ... oh, ahh, yepp, we should should have thought about...

More about Repliee Q2 . Here ’s a video from Discovery Channel. Makes me feel even more like being in the opening scene of Battlestar Galactica: "The Cylons were created by Man. They Rebelled. They Evolved. They Look and Feel Human. Some are programmed...

The bits don't even install... Did you manage to install the 32-bit IE7 on a 64-bit XP? How? Will check with the IE team tomorrow. Maybe its me.

Even more stuff to worry about and again not work related. I guess I should use my private blog (that nobody reads and I haven't used very much [once]). Today in the NY Times you can read an article about the latest NASA mishaps. They picked up where...

'We have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her," Prof Hiroshi Ishiguro. These guys watch way to much Battlestar Galactica . My favorite is Stargate SG1 : no Cylons.

“We are especially honored to have someone of Bill Gates' stature serve as our keynote speaker this year," said SC|05 Conference Chair Bill Kramer , general manager of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing. "His efforts have resulted in bringing...

Yes, Windows Vista Beta 1 is available for beta testers now. But did you realize that the Longhorn Server Beta 1 is out there, too? Longhorn Server beta 1 has been released at the same time and is now a vailable to private beta program participants. Longhorn...

Hope they don't get in trouble with BMW : The z9 mainframe data sounds pretty exciting. And it's of course 64-bit ...

Guess he (John C. Dvorak) doesn't get it. Vista is not about buzz; not yet. This is beta 1 (One) and we expect some real buzz with beta 2 and of course the final product. Few no buzz comments from my end: John: "I'm not saying that Microsoft is doomed...

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One of my favorite shell extensions in 32-bit is Alex Feinman's ISO Recorder. Shell extensions have to 64-bit in 64-bit Windows. So, without further looking I sent an email to Alex asking when to expect an x64 version. Here's is repsonse: "It's actually...

Josh Williams from the CLR team, proud user of a Ferrari 4000, shot me an email end of last week: "I have found that the bluetooth mouse can be made to work much better if you set the broadcom 802.11 card to have bluetooth compatibility mode enabled....