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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on November 13, 2006, 06:59:43 pm

Title: Top 500 super computer list
Post by: Nemesis on November 13, 2006, 06:59:43 pm

Link to site (http://top500.org/stats/28/os/)

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Linux           326      65.20 %
MacOS X         3       0.60 %
Windows         0(?)    0.0%(?)

Most of the balance seems to be various Unix systems.

Title: Re: Top 500 super computer list
Post by: GE-Raven on November 14, 2006, 09:37:45 am

Makes sense, as I doubt any super computer is being used in a "user friendly" fashion.  Linux has long been the king of "Does work with little overhead" as long as you know how to tell it to do the work.

So in any area that is Math/computational heavy I would guess you would see tons of Linux.

However with distributed processing on the horizon in a very real way, the days of the "supercomputer" are most definitely limited.  I believe I read somewhere that the worlds fastest super computer would have to churn for a month to equal the production from some of the top BOINC projects get everyday.  I will have to go looking.

GE-Raven

Title: Re: Top 500 super computer list
Post by: Nemesis on November 14, 2006, 08:02:04 pm

But it does render the claims that Linux is a "toy Operating System" untenable.  It also does the same to the claim that no one actually uses Linux.

What happened to the stripped down Windows server they were talking about that would be useful in a computer such as these?  Not up to the task?

If distributed systems were included then SETI Boinc would be #1 and I could claim I was part owner of the worlds fastest super computer.  :)