[Role reversal.]
Tux fuels the HPC market
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| ..very year, since then, Linux, open source compilers and tools have been
| increasing their share in this space due to their commodity nature, lower
| cost factor and reasonable performance.
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| “Linux as server OS technology fits in very well with the HPC segment.
| Overwhelmingly the majority of today’s HPC clusters are based on Linux. Some
| of the key benefits which are driving this adoption are high performance,
| scalability, flexibility, affordability and of course, an increasing
| ecosystem of hardware and software vendors supporting Linux for the HPC
| market,” explained Nandu Pradhan, President and Managing Director, Red Hat
| India.
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http://www.prdomain.com/companies/I/IBM/newsreleases/200831154073.htm
Related:
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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