Linux dominates in supercomputing

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.

This entry was written by Stefano Borini, posted on May 31, 2010 at 3:36 pm, filed under Linux. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Richard JP Le Guen
    Posted May 31, 2010 at 5:52 pm | Permalink

    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