Next Windows for supercomputers enters beta
BetaNews | at | by Mike
Demonstrating it can indeed rename a product with something that sounds pleasing and not so euphemistic, Microsoft took the wraps off its replacement for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 this morning. It will be called Windows HPC Server 2008, and today, the company taped it out for the second half of next year.In its announcement, the company invoked the phrase "Top 500" as though Windows had any claim to it. This morning's performance rankings from the University of Mannheim were less than stellar, with Compute Cluster Server only taking six slots. So Microsoft this morning emphasized not only the change of name, but a change of tune, gently positing the theory that perhaps the Top 500 test doesn't gauge real-world performance.