Microsoft cluster software shuns Itanium 2
News The software giant said this week that Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition will not run on servers built around the Itanium 2 chip from Intel. A beta version of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition is due to come out in the first...
[November 11, 2004, 7:27]
Windows for supercomputers by November
News Software Architect Marvin Theimer said on Thursday that the company hopes to have a beta version by this summer, with the final version of Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition ready by the SC2005 supercomputing conference in November.
[March 4, 2005, 8:20]
Microsoft drops Windows cluster bomb
News A Microsoft programmer said last month that the company was aiming to have Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition ready in time for a launch at the SC2005 supercomputing conference in November, with a beta version coming this summer.
[April 6, 2005, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's one calculation that won't require an array of Itaniums to compute. You want to run 512 processors in a high performance cluster? Windows Server 2003 HPC Edition will include features for running Windows on clusters of machines...
[June 25, 2004, 17:35]
Intel's running out of Itanium options
Leader So what could hurt more than Microsoft saying that its Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition won't run on Itanium 2? Suppose you threw a party and no-one came? Intel has put the streamers out, the sandwiches have had the crusts cut off and...
[November 11, 2004, 12:00]
Itanium trips up unwary designers
News It may also be significant that Microsoft's delayed Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition (CCE), designed to run on precisely the sort of high-end clustered systems that Itanium targets, has dropped Itanium support from its first release...
[April 7, 2005, 11:00]
Microsoft touts benefits of server 'roles'
News With Windows Server 2003, there are standard, enterprise and data-centre versions of the main OS, as well as a separate storage-server, compute-cluster edition and small-business version. Although businesses will have the option to install only...
[May 17, 2007, 10:45]
