Re: [Beowulf] MS HPC... pricing...

2006-06-14 Thread Gary Stiehr
Lombard, David N wrote: Joe Landman is quite correct that you can do well by presenting a Linux cluster with a web-based interface and SMB-based storage. But, let's face it, those who respond to that pitch will respond all the more to the full Windows gig. A web-based interface would p

RE: [Beowulf] MS HPC... pricing...

2006-06-12 Thread Lombard, David N
From: Jim Lux on Monday, June 12, 2006 11:11 AM > > There you go.. you have products from Ansys (Lots of design and Finite > element stuff) which are hideously compute intensive, run in the Windows > environment (because it has to, the engineer also runs MS Office for > institutional compatibility

Re: [Beowulf] MS HPC... pricing...

2006-06-12 Thread Jim Lux
At 09:43 AM 6/12/2006, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: We will confront you with your statement in a few years from now. If microsoft doesn't price their server/cluster stuff too expensive then in X years from now they'll dominate the highend market. Microsoft always has just taken markets by storming i