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LAMP for HPC? he he he. That high-performance PHP must have slipped by.
You obviously doesn't know what HPC is. Linux pretty much owns this space right now, but it does so because of neglect from competitors. Linux is facing serious problems with scaling in a multi-core world. Unlike Windows they have not gotten round to eliminate those big-kernel locks and spinlocks. And they will seriously impede scalability in a 16+ core world.
High performance computing is still driven by clusters of servers. This does not require the same level of thread scalability, but it does severely challenge how you can write effective algorithms.
Where Microsoft will excel (evidenced from the above diagrams) is in providing a complete programming model on top of the OS. They are really leading the pack here. "Concert", parallel LINQ etc. is miles ahead. This will be a hit with scientists who often need to craft algorithms themselves. Any help they can get in crafting efficient algorithms will improve the end result. And this is right up MS alley. It is what they have always been doing.
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