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It bears mentioning that the vast majority of these clusters are built by rather resource-poor academic institutions. Using an open-source OS allows them to focus more of their money on the hardware and development, and less on the licensing.

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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...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/03/04/goodbye-beowulf-windows-server-2003-compute-cluster-edition-en/http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/04/goodbye-beowulf-windows-server-2003-compute-cluster-edition-en/
Did you even have a look at the product page?

Anyone notice the link to Cactus?

Did you notice Jim Gray's involvement?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM