US Army Linux Supercomputer

[Paul Taylor]

The boxes I recently purchased come with 'special' application software. It
was low 6 figures for a clustered pair, the OS wasn't broken out from the
rest of the bundled price. I would guess it was peanuts compared to the
total price.

It's the first M$ cluster I had to purchase. I'll probably buy some more
over the next 18 months.

I'm 'encouraging' the vendor to migrate to Linux, but it takes time.

PT

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug at kclug.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Herrmann
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:27 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: US Army Linux Supercomputer

Just curious.  How much do "Clustering Services" from M$ cost?

Paul Taylor wrote:

> M$ does offer clustering.
>  
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/clustering/default.a
> sp
>  
> We use various cluster solutions at work, including M$.
>
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> *From:* owner-kclug at kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug at kclug.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Brian Densmore
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:21 PM
> *To:* kclug at kclug.org
> *Subject:* RE: US Army Linux Supercomputer
>
> Chump change! NASA's building an SGI 10,240 CPU Linux cluster. Don't 
> recall the cpus, probably Intels.
> Let's see M$ build a Windows cluster that size that doesn't take out a 
> small city with it when it crashes.
> Oh wait... M$ Windows doesn't cluster. ;')