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Operating system Family share for 06/2010

http://www.top500.org

Linux runs a massive 91% of supercomputers in June 2010. Windows on the contrary runs a sad 1%.

The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is assembled and released.

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The biggest and best run Linux

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More than 90% of the world's largest supercomputers now run Linux - here are the fastest supercomputers in the world

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LINUX POWERS 91% OF THE WORLDS TOP SUPERCOMPUTERS

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk

With the biannual list of the top 500 supercomputers the world over released, the following screenshot of a graph showing the operating systems used in those 500 peta-flop crunching machines, and produced by the University of California Berkeley, makes for an impressive visual glance at Linux’s dominance in Super Computing.

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Jaguar outruns Roadrunner

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Linux claims an even larger portion of the world's top supercomputers and IBM's Roadrunner gets run off its feet by a Jaguar.

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Linux rulz: Top500 says so

http://www.itwire.com

Today’s release of the list of the top 500 supercomputers shows that well over 90% are running Linux. Also, IBM’s Roadrunner has finally been dethroned; in a big way

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GNU/Linux Just Became Topper

http://www.computerworlduk.com

One of my favourite sites for anyone benighted enough to believe that Windows is in any sense superior technology to free software is Top500. As its name hints, this is simply the top 500 supercomputers in the world, with an analysis by location, vendors, processor architecture – and, of course, operating systems.

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GNU/Linux Tops TOP500 Supercomputers Again

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com

The fact that GNU/Linux totally dominates the top 500 supercomputing list is hardly news, but the fact that it has managed to *increase* its market share yet further is.

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Linux: It doesn't get any faster

http://blogs.computerworld.com

The Windows' fan club likes to point out that Windows is far more popular than Linux. The reason for that has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with monopoly. Nothing shows that better than the semi-annual TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

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World's three most powerful supercomputers run SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell

http://www.supercomputingonline.com

Supercomputers around the world are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today.

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Linux Cluster Supercomputer Performs Surgery on Dog

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu

In April, the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, performed laser surgery on a dog in Houston without the intervention of a surgeon.

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New supercomputer is a rack of PlayStations... running GNU/Linux

http://www.smh.com.au

[T]he PS3 was built with an open hardware architecture, which can run the Linux operating system.

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The fastest computers are Linux computers

http://www.linux-watch.com

What do the BlueGene/L System, the BlueGene/P system and the New Mexico Computing Applications Center SGI system, based on the Altix ICE Integrated Compute Environment 8200 model, have in common? First, they're the top three fastest computers in the world, according to the latest Top 500 supercomputer list. Second, they all run Linux.

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New Cray supercomputer based on Linux

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Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has launched the Cray XT5 family of supercomputers, which it says is "the world's most scalable Linux-based supercomputer".

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Students develop supercomputer

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A team of students of Federal Institute of Science and Technology at Mokkannoor here on Monday claimed to have developed a super computing system called ‘Dakshina cluster series - I’. The system was designed and developed, as part of the Centre for High Performance Computing project initiated by the Computer Science Department. Team leader C.

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Linux supercomputer firm snags $10M funding

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SiCortex, claiming to be the first company to engineer a Linux cluster from the silicon up, has secured $10 million in venture capital. The funds have arrived as the company "launches its super energy efficient high performance Linux cluster computers," SiCortex said.

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