● 06.16.08

●● Microsoft Takes Experiments with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 a Little Further

Posted in GNU/Linux, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Servers at 7:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Novell recently bragged about SUSE's presence in supercomputers, but Novell also offers an adoption ramp for Microsoft Windows in supercomputers. This should hardly be surprising given that the company’s CEO recently said: “our partnership with Microsoft continues to expand.”

The story we refer to here is about dual-booting SUSE with Windows. In the news we now find this.

Windows dual boots its way onto a Linux stage

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Windows may never boot Linux from its dominant role in high performance computing, but Microsoft’s dual-boot strategy is making some inroads. IBM says it has built what may be the largest Windows/Linux HPC dual-boot system yet for a university research group in Sweden.

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Will Microsoft welcome dual-booting with GNU/Linux on desktops and laptops? Of course not. █

“The integration of WCCS [Windows Compute Cluster Server] into the Linux SUSE environment enables users to submit jobs to the Platform LSF scheduler for execution on WCCS.”

–Microsoft

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