Microsoft & Cray join at the technical hip to bring ... the CX1!
Straight from the Windows Server dvision technet blog:
Microsoft and Cray Team up to Bring High Performance Computing Mainstream
For the first time in the two companies history, Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to offer a powerful mix of what each company does best - - the Cray CX1! What is the CX1, you ask? It’s a compact supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008, that’s what.
Wow, who would have thought of that, a CRAY running a Windows OS! If ol' Seymour was still around, wonder how he'd handle this news? Wonder what he'd think about CRAY not currently having the fastest super-computers in the world (IBM currently?).
Who is Seymour Cray\CRAY? Don't know your nuts from your bolts when it comes to computing back-history? Wonder no more, follow this link to read about a once leading light, in the pursuit of faster super-computing. Talking of notable IT engineers, another worth checking out would be David Cutler, who is still above ground and working for ... Microsoft!
Do all IT roads eventually lead to Microsoft?