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photo credit: bravofourthree Holy cow…they have trees here. That was my first thought when driving through the upper corner of Oklahoma. I know…it’s silly. The mental picture I’ve had of Oklahoma has always been one of dry grass, dust, and weatherbeaten farmhouses standing watch over herds of cattle. I got the cattle part right. The rest [...]

Microsoft HPC - O’Reilly ONLamp Blog Windows HPC Server 2008 is about high performance computing on the Windows platform. Or highly productive performance computing how we call it on our main product website www.microsoft.com/hpc. Will this be better than the LPC we’ve been dealing with for years? Promise? This post is from Chris Miller's Unquiet Desperation Microsoft HPC

The second day on the road was much smoother. We decided that the minivan with my wife, my mother-in-law, and kids in it should drive on it’s own, and my father-in-law and I would follow along in his car and the truck. This gave the minivan the ability to stop whenever it needed. [...]