[BlueOnyx:12511] OT: interesting Linux use.

[Gerald Waugh]

      Supercomputers

Linux is the most popular operating system among supercomputers 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer> due to its superior 
performance, flexibility, speed and lower costs. In November 2008 Linux 
held an 87.8 percent share of the world's top 500 supercomputers.^[90] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#cite_note-90> ^[91] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#cite_note-91> ^[92] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#cite_note-CW23Nov09-92> 
^[93] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#cite_note-PT13Jun08-93> 
^[94] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#cite_note-InTech01Sep03-94>

As of November 2012 the operating systems used on the world's top 500 
supercomputers were:^[95] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#cite_note-95>

OS 	Share
Linux 	93.8%
AIX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX> 	3.6%
Hybrid Unix/Linux 	1.4%
Other Unix 	0.6%
Windows HPC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_HPC> 	0.6%

In January 2010 Weiwu Hu, chief architect of the Loongson 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson> family of CPUs at the Institute 
of Computing Technology, which is part of the Chinese Academy of 
Sciences <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences>, 
confirmed that the new Dawning 6000 supercomputer will use Chinese-made 
Loongson processors and will run Linux as its operating system. The most 
recent supercomputer the organization built, the Dawning 5000a, which 
was first run in 2008, used AMD chips and ran Windows HPC Server 2008 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_HPC_Server_2008>.^[96] 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#cite_note-Mims19Jan10-96>

-- 
Gerald
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