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On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:20:36PM +0000, paul sutton wrote: > http://www.top500.org/stats/27/os/ > > Looks like out of 500 of the worlds best supercomputers linux has quite > a good market, share, 66 percent, microsoft however have a minute 0.20 > percent market share, that top on looks nice > > Operating System Count Share % Rmax Sum (GF) Rpeak Sum (GF) > Processor Sum > Linux 334 66.80 % 1247912 2131665 367847 I'd guess it's because GNU/Linux (and other free OSes) can be modified to suit the needs of a supercomputer, unlike Windows. Besides, most of the budget would go on purchasing a Windows licence that'd cover all those dozens and dozens of processors. Linux supports that out of the box. ;) bma -- Benjamin A'Lee e: bma@xxxxxxxxx gpg: 0x11464336BB6D2FA0 w: http://bmalee.eu/~bma/ "I think it would be a good idea." - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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