June 2008 Top500 Supercomputer Sites Dominated by Linux
Jul 01, 2008, 11:00 (2 Talkback[s])
"The new No. 1 system, built by IBM for the U.S. Department of
Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory and called
“Roadrunner,” achieved performance of 1.026
petaflop/s—becoming the first supercomputer ever to reach
this milestone. At the same time, Roadrunner is also one of the
most energy efficient systems on the TOP500."
This chart
shows that Linux powers 85% of the world's most powerful
computers.
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