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I vaguely remember that Microsoft offered version of Windows Server for HPC environments at one point. Are the reasons for not using Windows purely financial (
by krylon 9y ago
I vaguely remember that Microsoft offered version of Windows Server for HPC environments at one point.
Are the reasons for not using Windows purely financial (in a cluster with thousands of nodes the licensing costs can become substantial) or are there technical reasons as well?
- microcolonel 9y agoI doubt licensing costs have much to do with it, it seems like flexibility would be the driving factor. Supercomputing centers, vendors, institutions which use supercomputers, etc. all frequently modify and contribute modifications to the Linux kernel and associated userland. You have to imagine they are making changes which Microsoft could not afford to care much about, nor turn around in competitive time.
- krylon 9y agoThat makes sense. Thank you!