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Microsoft Windows is emerging as an acceptable operating system for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters in place of Linux, lowering the bar for entry into that space, according to some analysts and major vendors.

In 2006, Microsoft announced the release of Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003, marking the company's first attempt at an operating system for HPC applications. Industry observers say that Windows CCS has been well accepted, particularly for small computing clusters.

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Don Becker -- who is the founder and chief technical officer of Scyld Software and the co-founder of the original Beowulf project, ...... said that, in the HPC space, Windows is not considered a formidable threat to Linux, though Microsoft "certainly ha[s] the money to invest, and could one day be."
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Despite this advantage, the idea of using Windows in the HPC space is outlandish to Becker, who believes that Linux is the ideal operating system for clusters; the OS, he said, "grew up in that space and has good high-performance communications."
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