Linux & supercomputers

[James Knott]

"Twice a year, the Top500 Project publishes its list of the fastest 
supercomputers in the world. In the last announcement, we continue to 
see Linux dominating the list. This is nothing new since Linux has been 
dominating since the mid-2000s. In fact, Linux share in supercomputing 
looks a lot like Microsoft’s historical share of the desktop market. I 
thought it would be interesting to take a step back and look at the 
performance capability of these computers as a whole and also how the 
rise of Linux is mirroring the geographical expansion of supercomputers."

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2011/06/supercomputing-freakonomics-finding-meaning-beyond-headlines 

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