Nothing new under the Sun, but the very interesting presentation makes it very cool to see. I just got to this article at BBC about the Top500 supercomputer list, where a very nice Treemap graph presents supercomputers according to their computational power. By selecting the Operating System, the dominance of Linux is staggering, confirming its status of de-facto standard for high-performance computing. Again, nothing new under the Sun, but it is interesting to see it in such strong visual representation.
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Wow! That’s incredible… I didn’t know Linux leads the field in supercomputing by such a large margin… though it makes perfect sense.
Being I would have figured that the distribution would have been similar to the market share for various web server software… but Linux’s dominating position isn’t nearly as pronounced in web software: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm