Platform clusters Windows HPC with Linux
Platform Computing has taken the beta off its Infrastructure Sharing Facility, a way of greasing the adoption of Windows HPC Server 2008 among the supercomputing folk.
Having seen a zillion different operating systems and architectures over the past three decades, these HPC techies like the portability and commonality of Linux across the remaining incompatible server platforms. But Windows not being Linux is not an insurmountable barrier.
