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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> Chinaâs Next Supercomputer is using Linux
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>>| China is on its way to make a new indigenous
>>| supercomputer build with custom
>>| microprocessors developed at the Institute Of
>>| Computing Technology. This supercomputer, the
>>| petascale Dawning 6000 is a successor of the
>>| current fastest supercomputer China has, the
>>| Dawning 5000a. The Dawning 5000a has been
>>| running on AMD powered microprocessors and
>>| Windows HPC Server as itâs OS. The Dawning
>>| 5000a ranks 11th in the world. Apart from
>>| that, China also holds the #5 supercomputer in
>>| the top 500 list.
>> `----
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>> http://techie-buzz.com/linux-news/chinas-supercomputer-linux.html
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> The Dawning 5000a was ranked 19th in the World last November, the last
> time the top500.org list was updated.
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> This is, to be fair, an incredible achievement for Windows, though. One
> wonders how often the nodes crash, and how the overall machine recovers.
We once tried Windows clusters over here and it was a disaster. Not much has changed
since then. Windows is built by Microsoft alone, not clustering experts like IBM (whose
developers write Linux).
Microsoft has more or lost lost its ambition in HPC (they rarely mention it).
Windows also loses the mobile sector, which is probably the fastest growing.
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