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Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the finally-it's-here dept.

Beeftopia writes: From ZDNet: "The latest TOP500 Supercomputer list is out. What's not surprising is that Linux runs on every last one of the world's fastest supercomputers. Linux has dominated supercomputing for years. But, Linux only took over supercomputing lock, stock, and barrel in November 2017. That was the first time all of the TOP500 machines were running Linux. Before that IBM AIX, a Unix variant, was hanging on for dear life low on the list."

An interesting architectural note: "GPUs, not CPUs, now power most of supercomputers' speed."

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  1. Good for Linux! by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Informative

    And congrats to all that support and develop for it, especially one Mr Linus Benedict Torvalds.

  2. Coming back around by afidel · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's interesting that relatively weak CPU coupled with multiple fast vector processors that could do massive parallel calculations was basically the design of the original Cray supercomputers and we're back to that design coupled with fast interconnects to team up many, many nodes. Kinda cool to see that Seymour had it right =)

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