[ Thanks to Amy
Kucharik for this link. ]
“Why are and why aren’t HPC users moving to
Linux?“Rosenthal: Instead of large SGI Origin, 64-way
Sun SPARC or big IBM systems, they can deploy much more cost-
effective Linux clustering solutions at a fraction of a cost.“An HPC Linux cluster gives better performance than the old
alternatives, like Cray supercomputers, at a fifth of the cost.
Sure, Cray machines had and have good performance and a good
architecture, but they are prohibitively expensive compared to
commodity clusters, and they’re proprietary…”