Oh I understand the difference, but I thought I'd take this opportunity to bash MS.
But, since MS's cloud runs off of MS Azure and MS Server 2008, I would bet the excel functionality would be possible. ---------------------- Steve Crusan System Administrator Center for Research Computing -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Prentice Bisbal Sent: Thu 4/7/2011 11:05 AM Cc: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Microsoft "cloud" commercials. "Cluster" != "Cloud" The Cloud, by definition requires the Internet. Clusters do not. In fact, I bet the NSA can show you many clusters that are not connect to the Internet at all. While I'm at it, "Grid" != ("Cluster" || "Cloud") either! On 04/07/2011 10:49 AM, Crusan, Steve wrote: > Windows HPC Server 2008 also has a builtin feature for an end user to > submit excel docs to a windows cluster to do intense timesheet and > office supplies calculations... > > ---------------------- > Steve Crusan > System Administrator > Center for Research Computing > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] on behalf of Prentice Bisbal > Sent: Thu 4/7/2011 10:21 AM > To: Beowulf Mailing List > Subject: [Beowulf] Microsoft "cloud" commercials. > > Is anyone else as annoyed by the Microsoft "cloud" commercials as I am? > > In all these commercials, the protagonists say "to the cloud" for their > solution, but then when they show them using Microsoft Windows to access > "the cloud", they're not using the cloud at all. > > In fact, in one commercial, the one where the wife/mother is fixing the > family portrait, she's using a photoshop-like program on her own > desktop, not even the Internet is needed. > > Not only do they use the term "cloud" incorrectly, they don't even show > how using Microsoft products give you and advantage for using "the cloud" > > AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGH! > > Okay. Venting over. Whew! I feel better already. > > -- > Prentice > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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