| Linux running more than half of the world's fastest computers |
Jun. 21, 2004
Analyst and Harvard Research Group vice president of Linux strategy Bill Claybrook discusses the increase in the number of supercomputers running Linux over the past four years in an article published today at NewsForge. According to the Top 500 Fastest List that tracks supercomputer performance, Linux currently runs more than half of the world's fastest supercomputers.
"Of Intel's 287 systems on the list, 243 are clusters of some kind and almost all, if not all of them, are running Linux," NewsForge quotes Claybrook as saying. He forecasts Linux will replace everything on the Top 500 List and points to the price/performance advantage of open source software as a key reason for the jump in use, according to the article.
Since 1993, the Top 500 List, compiled twice a year, tracks the most powerful computer systems worldwide. The list is assembled with the help of high-performance computer experts, computational scientists, manufacturers, and the Internet community in general. The list is also based on statistical lists published by others for different purposes, the Top500 website says.
You can view the Top500 List for June 2004 here.
Read the complete article about the growing trend of using Linux in clusters and supercomputers at NewsForge.
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