Most popular Linux among supercomputers

[mack_guy911]

This is very interesting



SUSE Linux most popular Linux among supercomputers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top500

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/06/24/...ercomputer-os/

[quintile]

That's Interesting, Mac...

Thanks for the links!

[Judge Dee]

Actually, it is interesting.

19 of the top 20 supercomputers in the world are running some form of Linux.

Linux has an 88.6% share of the top 500 supercomputers

Bill Pulleyblank of IBM Research attributed this fact to Linux being open source. Is there more to it than that, or is that reason enough?

[Mrkvonic]

I also think it's scalability and performance.
Mrk

[Judge Dee]

Makes sense.
Had to look up scalability, btw.

[chronomatic]

Microsoft even admits that it hasn't done much on supercomputers. Steve Ballmer said he wants to break into the supercomputer market, so he is having certain versions of Windows redesigned for supercomputers.

However, without Windows being open-source and since it's licensed under draconian licenses, it's hard to see how the academic community will embrace it.

[mack_guy911]

linux got all

Performance, scalability, reliability and above all cost-effective

thanks guys i learn new word today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability