A peek under Microsoft's secret 'Bigtop'

Microsoft officials have said little about the company’s intentions in the grid-computing space. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft is ignoring the evolving arena of grid/distributed computing.

Microsoft is working on a skunk-works project that is code-named Bigtop, which is designed to allow developers to create a set of loosely coupled, distributed operating-systems components in a relatively rapid way, according to sources close to the company, who requested anonymity.

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