[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“In the latest Top 500 Supercomputer list list, which was
released on June 20th, Linux accounts for 91.00 % of the top
supercomputers. Linux is followed by Unix with 4.6%; and Windows
with 1.2%. When it comes to super-fast computers like
supercomputers or IBM Jeopardy winning Watson, Linux rules.“Of the fastest of the fast, the top ten supercomputers all run
Linux. The top ten, lead by the K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced
Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe Japan, are all
capable of performing more than 8 quadrillion calculations per
second (petaflop/s) This ranking is determined by how fast the
computers can run Linpack, ‘a benchmark application developed to
solve a dense system of linear equations.’ The highest ranking pure
Windows supercomputer, the Magic Cube at
China’s Shanghai Supercomputer Center, comes in
at 40th.”