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Stories about: Dawning 5000A

Windows Now Powers the World's 15th Most Powerful Supercomputer The Windows operating system currently powers the world's 15th most powerful supercomputer, according to the Linpack Benchmark. While the position is nothing short of meritorious on a market traditionally dominated both in terms of share and performance by the Linux open source platform, fact is that Windows man... 23 June 2009 11:12 GMT Windows for Supercomputers Goes to 180.60 Teraflops – No. 10 in the World Microsoft’s latest iteration of Windows for supercomputers powers a machine that has broken into the top 10 High Performance Computing systems worldwide. The Chinese-built Dawning 5000A, from the Shanghai Supercomputer Center, runs Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, a... 19 November 2008 15:01 GMT