Linux Claims 4 of the Top 5 Supercomputer Spots

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 14, 2005 @11:04AM from the super-today-desktop-tomorrow dept.

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that the November 2005 list of supercomputers has been published. Certainly something to note is that four of the top five use linux. Relatedly Multiflow writes "CNET is reporting that the number of supercomputers on the Top500 list which use Intel Itanium 2 microprocessors has fallen by almost 50% in the past year. While new higher performance Itanium chips are in the pipeline, the article reports that 64 bit Xeons and Opterons have increased their representation on Top500."

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Slashdotted a SUPERCOMPUTER ranking site! by pcnetworx1 · 2005-11-14 11:33 · Score: 0, Redundant

Linux > Windows
Slashdot > Linux
??? > Slashdot
Lemme reiterate, A SUPERCOMPUTER RANKING SITE WAS SLASHDOTTED!!!!! w00t!
...and the fifth one? by HermanAB · 2005-11-14 13:20 · Score: 1, Redundant

Looking further, it seems that the top ten all run some flavour of UNIX and seven of them run Linux.

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