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Re: Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores

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____/ Wintrolls Lie on Monday 16 Nov 2009 19:14 : \____

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:08:45 +0000, bbgruff wrote:
> 
>> nessuno wrote:
>> 
>>> <Quote>
>>> The fall edition of the list was announced this morning at the SC09
>>> supercomputing trade show in Portland, Oregon. The single biggest
>>> transition in the list is the move to quad-core - and in some notable
>>> cases, six-core - processors inside supercomputing systems. And most of
>>> the machines on the list now run Linux with x64 processors. </Quote>
>>> 
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/top500_supers_nov_2009/
>> 
>> OS        Count  Share
>>           
>> Linux      446   89.20 %
>> Windows      5    1.00 %
>> Unix        25    5.00 %
>> BSD Based    1    0.20 %
>> Mixed       23    4.60 %
>> 
>> Totals     500  100.00 %
>> 
>> No further comment needed?
> 
> Just one:
> 
> "Gates also announced that, as part of the companyâs steps toward
> realizing this vision, Microsoft is funding joint research projects at 10
> academic centers worldwide and has released the beta 2 version of
> Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, Microsoftâs first product offering
> for high-performance computing."
> 
> <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005nov05/11-15TechnicalComputingVisionPR.mspx>

Our faculty tried it as the time as it was a massive fail. Microsoft gave it
away for free or something. What a fail.

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