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Re: GNU/Linux Makes Windows Look Tiny (Less Than 2% of Top 500)

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____/ Ed on Thursday 23 Jun 2011 15:12 : \____

> On 2011-06-22, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The Best & Fastest Computers are Linux Computers
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| In the latest Top 500 Supercomputer list list,
>>| which was released on June 20th, Linux accounts
>>| for 91.00 % of the top supercomputers. Linux is
>>| followed by Unix with 4.6%; and Windows with 1.2%.
>>| When it comes to super-fast computers like supercomputers
>>| or IBM Jeopardy winning Watson, Linux rules.
>>| 
>>| Of the fastest of the fast, the top ten supercomputers
>>| all run Linux. The top ten, lead by the K Computer at the
>>| RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
>>| in Kobe Japan, are all capable of performing more than 8
>>| quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s) This
>>| ranking is determined by how fast the computers can run
>>| Linpack, âa benchmark application developed to solve a
>>| dense system of linear equations.â The highest ranking
>>| pure Windows supercomputer, the Magic Cube at Chinaâs
>>| Shanghai Supercomputer Center, comes in at 40th.
>> `----
> 
> I'm very pleased to see you're back Roy.

I didn't even know you still lurked !! 

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