Posted on December 29th, 2004 in Life
A Peek Under Microsoft’s Secret ‘Bigtop’
Rather than attempting to tightly couple a few high-performance systems together, Microsoft is looking at the consequences of loosely coupling a larger number of moderately powerful computers to achieve a similar result.
Bigtop’s first commercial manifestation will likely be as some kind of large-scale project, most likely a distributed grid-computing operating [...]

