Windows gets super powers
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft is moving into the world of high-performance computing with a new version of Windows that aims to make the ultrapowerful systems far more common in businesses and research institutions.
This morning at SC/05, an international supercomputing conference in downtown Seattle, Bill Gates will lay out Microsoft's strategy for entering the high-performance computing market with a program called Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
The program increases the competition between Windows and open-source rival Linux, which currently leads the high-performance computing market. But rather than simply trying to take market share from Linux, Microsoft says it will try to expand its potential market by increasing the use of high-performance computing overall.