MS Compute Cluster Seen As Challenge to Linux in HPC
OpenSource Magazine sees Windows Compute Cluster, which Microsoft will demo at SIA in New York this week, as a potential threat to Linux in high performance computing -- a market that IDC says grew 24 percent last year.
Microsoft thinks it stands a shot because its server is supposed to be easy to deploy, operate, manage and integrate. It's also cheaper than the Windows Server 2003 operating system it's based on. Cost could help it go more mainstream. It'll run $469 per node depending on license and volume and development can be done via the ubiquitous Visual Studio 2005. http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/236967.htm
