fos
07-02-2006, 09:44 PM
When it comes to super computers, Linux is too hot for Microsoft to handle!
(Maybe its due to the fact that Linux is open source - fos)
IBM's BlueGene/L computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, has once again been crowned world champion by the TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers used for scientific applications. Ned Stafford digs into the story behind the fastest computers on the planet.
There are some familiar big names in the supercomputer market. IBM is the dominant supercomputer vendor, with Hewlett-Packard coming second. Intel microprocessors are used in 301 of the 500 systems. But Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is growing quickly, Simon says.
In software, Microsoft is at the bottom of the list, with only two supercomputers using its operating system. The software king is Linux, used on more than 70% of the total.
You might be interested to know that today's average notebook computer is faster than the supercomputer that made the bottom of the TOP500 list in 1992. So you may already own the equivalent of a vintage supercomputer.
fos.... :)
Ref: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060626/full/060626-12.html
(Maybe its due to the fact that Linux is open source - fos)
IBM's BlueGene/L computer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, has once again been crowned world champion by the TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers used for scientific applications. Ned Stafford digs into the story behind the fastest computers on the planet.
There are some familiar big names in the supercomputer market. IBM is the dominant supercomputer vendor, with Hewlett-Packard coming second. Intel microprocessors are used in 301 of the 500 systems. But Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is growing quickly, Simon says.
In software, Microsoft is at the bottom of the list, with only two supercomputers using its operating system. The software king is Linux, used on more than 70% of the total.
You might be interested to know that today's average notebook computer is faster than the supercomputer that made the bottom of the TOP500 list in 1992. So you may already own the equivalent of a vintage supercomputer.
fos.... :)
Ref: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060626/full/060626-12.html