Someone's been sleeping in class. Actually, a lot of the cluster's you don't hear so much about - but be sure they're on the Top500 list - are deployed by major oil companies, major finance companies and major life sciences companies.
This is a huge market already, and these companies don't rely on a 'we built this OS ourselves' approach as these clusters are becoming more and more vital in their operations. So they're shelling out large amounts of money on OS license fees, maintenance agreements in addition to commercial MPI and cluster management systems, storage solutions ++. Which is exactly why M$ wants to get into this market...
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Someone's been sleeping in class. Actually, a lot of the cluster's you don't hear so much about - but be sure they're on the Top500 list - are deployed by major oil companies, major finance companies and major life sciences companies.
This is a huge market already, and these companies don't rely on a 'we built this OS ourselves' approach as these clusters are becoming more and more vital in their operations. So they're shelling out large amounts of money on OS license fees, maintenance agreements in addition to commercial MPI and cluster management systems, storage solutions ++. Which is exactly why M$ wants to get into this market...