[Beowulf] SGI to offer Windows on clusters

[Eric Shook]

I talked to our SGI rep about this yesterday and he told me they are not 
really targeting "hard-core" university research where Linux/UNIX 
already has a strong foot hold.  Instead this is for the Business sector 
where simplified workflows and having easy HPC integration into an 
already 100% Windows Infrastructure is more appealing.

This was his take and it seemed reasonable to me.

Eric Shook
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Mikael Fredriksson wrote:
> Hi all of You Beowulfers.
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> This article: "SGI to offer Windows on clusters" might be worth reading...
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> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9007859&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8 
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> Any comments?
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> Regards
> MF
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