Microsoft gets into supercomputers
Microsoft Corp., which built its business by aiming to put a "computer on every desk" is moving into the high-end supercomputing market as hardware becomes more affordable, Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday.
The world's largest software maker will offer a version of Windows called "Compute Cluster Server 2003" that offers high performance computing by tying together several personal computers in a high-speed network that allows them to crunch huge amounts of data to simulate weather, analyze DNA and process other research-level tasks.
"Microsoft wants to play a role here," Gates told Supercomputing 2005, an industry gathering being held in Seattle this week.
