Microsoft executives are thinking about empowering of Windows Software with multi-node clusters churning in parallel on a single task.



According to IDC, the value of Windows is $9.2 billion and still it is growing. Instead of using Linux based clusters, Microsoft is choosing traditional platforms to ease Windows in non-technical market. At the same time, company is trying to take a new position by broadening of thousand nodes clusters into new clusters of few dozens of nodes, which will work on small-scale problems.



Microsoft released Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 in June. The price of license per node is $469, which includes the operating system as well as system software to run and participate in a cluster.



Recently company has tested the Compute Cluster Server to 100 CPUs at Northrop Grumman’s Space Technology division. Now company engineers will use their clusters for small-sized jobs. Company has connected a compute cluster server to the active directory and new clusters is going to set up soon.



Previously, the company’s LS-DYNA application was running on 32-bit Windows Server 2003. Company is creating a distributed memory version, which will run on cluster. Recently LSTV is porting the distributed memory version to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.



Via: ENT News