New Top500 List Released at Supercomputing '06

Guybrush_T writes "Today the 27th Edition of the Top 500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers was released at ISC 2006. IBM BlueGene/L remains the world fastest computer with 280.6 TFlop/s. No new US system in the top10 this year, since they all come from Europe and Japan. The French Cluster at CEA (French NNSA equivalent) is number 5 with 42.9 TFlop/s. The Earth simulator (no 10) is no longer the largest system in Japan since the GSIC Center built a 38.2 TFlop/s Cluster, reaching the 7th place. The German cluster at Juelich is number 8 with 37.3 TFlop/s. The full list, and the previous 26 lists, are available on the Top500.org site."

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Re:What, no microsoft?

[Kadin2048]

Just to follow up, you can get OS information here: http://www.top500.org/stats/27/osfam/ (by family)

OS (# systems) (Percent)
Linux 367 73.40%
Windows 2 0.40%
Unix 98 19.60%
BSD 4 0.80%
Mixed 24 4.80%
Mac OS 5 1.00%
Totals 500 100%

Alternately there's a more refined breakdown listing them by Operating System type and version. Oddly, "Linux" is listed both as an operating system family and as a distinct flavor/distro ... I can only assume that the systems using "Linux" as the particular operating system are using a custom-made distro, instead of one of the commercial ones (which are listed separately on the detailed chart). Unless they just failed to report one in particular.

As for the Windows-based systems, there were one each for Windows 2003 Server and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.