Microsoft To Crash Supercomputers
According to this article on CNet, Microsoft has formed a “High Performance Computing” team to try and build a version of Windows to run on supercomputers currently dominated by Linux. Modern supercomputers are not the room sized machines of the past but instead are made up of thousands of servers all tightly networked together to function as a single machine. Microsoft doesn’t like that Linux seems to be the favorite choice for software running the world’s fastest computers, such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Thunder supercomputer, the second fastest computer on earth. Now that Microsoft is trying to throw their hat in the ring, get ready for some amazing results, like thousands of computers grinding to a crawl and crashing at the exact same time.
