{"id":94,"date":"2009-11-20T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2017-07-20T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T08:04:08","slug":"first-they-laugh-at-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/20\/first-they-laugh-at-you\/","title":{"rendered":"First they laugh at you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a title=\"Microsoft Windows HPC Beta On Par with Linux\" href=\"http:\/\/www.networkcomputing.com\/servers-storage\/microsoft-windows-hpc-beta-on-par-with-linux.php\">this article in &#8220;Network Computing&#8221;<\/a> pretty interesting, although not exactly for the content. \u00a0 Just the framing of the whole article, with Microsoft is touting the fact that they&#8217;ve managed to achieve performance parity with Linux on some HPC benchmarks as an achievement (and putting up a graph that shows they are still at least a few percent behind), shows how dominant Linux is in HPC.\u00a0 Also, the article says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The beta also reportedly includes optimizations for new processors and can deploy and manage up to 1,000 nodes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in other words Microsoft is stuck at the low end of the HPC market, only us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article in &#8220;Network Computing&#8221; pretty interesting, although not exactly for the content. \u00a0 Just the framing of the whole article, with Microsoft is touting the fact that they&#8217;ve managed to achieve performance parity with Linux on some HPC benchmarks as an achievement (and putting up a graph that shows they are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infiniband","category-rdma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalvampire.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}