The unholy alliance of Microsoft and Novell says it's got some HPC supercomputing cross-platform widgetry developed in their joint Interoperability Lab in Massachusetts that's good for customers deploying server workload management across SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows HPC Server. It should tickle their infrastructure efficiency and cost savings by simplifying systems management through dual-boot and hybrid cluster solutions. They can balance server workloads using both SLES and Windows HPC Server and switch between the two environments. The pair has got a list of highfalutin brand name customers already using the stuff.