Linux continues to rule supercomputers | Linux Today

Linux continues to rule supercomputers

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 20, 2013

Is that good enough for you? While Linux fans and critics obsess about Linux’s failure to sweep Windows off the desktop, they’re ignoring that Linux is winning everywhere else, and that when it comes to the highest of high-end computing, Linux rules.

Driving the point home, the top 10 fastest supercomputers all run Linux of one sort or the other. You have to go the way to the 44th fastest computer, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts box, which runs IBM’s AIX Unix variant, to find one that doesn’t run Linux.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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