Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
appear benchmark blue moon numbers particular
Those do not appear to be cherry-picked numbers of some particular benchmark on a blue moon with a tailwind blowing.
favor game late microsoft overcome
Microsoft is going to be very late to the game and will need to overcome a presumption that it will favor Windows.
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Microsoft has made a few unsuccessful attempts to become a key player in the supercomputer market but the company could be in a better position for success this time.
built business expertise leverage microsoft party software third wants
Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.
intel likes messages michael option send
Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.
running stay
You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business.
call came certainly dead given hard people performance
When the Pentium 4 first came out, the performance was very disappointing to a lot of people initially. It's hard to call the Pentium 4 a failure, given how many they sold, but it was certainly an evolutionary dead end.
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I don't think Microsoft had much choice in the matter. The bottom line is there is not a whole lot of market to buy that product from Microsoft.
analysis companies data number starting various
A number of companies are starting to look at supercomputing for various data analysis applications.
ability awareness certain code customers elements feedback greater influence microsoft mirror ongoing open openness source visibility
In the sense of having this ongoing awareness of and feedback mechanism, it does mirror certain elements of open source development. If not openness of code and standards, there is greater visibility into what's going on. Customers have visibility more than an ability to necessarily influence Microsoft greatly.
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Intel woke up from its frequency delusion and is now going full-bore on dual-core.
believe competitor enjoyed hard intel lead maintain market past performance sneak
Intel let a competitor sneak into a market where they weren't before. Still, it was hard to believe that AMD would be able to maintain the kind of performance lead that they have enjoyed over the past one to two years.
backup based general intel products reason shown statements
Intel has shown preliminary benchmarks that backup their general statements about performance. Based on what I have seen, there is not reason to think the products will not live up to their billing.
energy intel strategy
Intel has inconsistently put energy into storage. It hasn't had a real comprehensive strategy in the past.