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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. Meanwhile, at the other end of the scale ... by nickovs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... Linux is also taking over the world of IoT.

    I don't think that there has ever been another operating system that has been used across such a wide range of systems with such a range of scales.

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    If intelligent life is too complex to evolve on its own, who designed God?
  2. Kids these days by Areyoukiddingme · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

    Who is this beeftopia guy who is so monumentally ignorant of the history of supercomputing? That's not an "interesting architectural note". That's supercomputing since the very beginning of supercomputing. Supercomputers are supercomputers specifically because they had vector processors, before "GPU" was even a recognizable acronym. When PCs had nothing but framebuffers, supercomputers had vector processors. That was the point of building them. Once the GPU was invented, utilizing them to build a supercomputer was an inevitability.

    And get off my lawn!