{"id":28226,"date":"2017-11-15T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28226"},"modified":"2017-11-15T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:32:43","slug":"all-500-of-the-worlds-top-500-supercomputers-are-running-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/15\/all-500-of-the-worlds-top-500-supercomputers-are-running-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"All 500 of the World’s Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Slashdot shares the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list. Today, it finally happened:\u00a0All 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers are running Linux<\/a>. The last two non-Linux systems, a pair of Chinese IBM POWER computers running AIX, dropped off the\u00a0November 2017 TOP500 Supercomputer list<\/a>. When the\u00a0first TOP500 supercomputer list<\/a>\u00a0was compiled in June 1993, Linux was barely more than a toy. It hadn’t even adopted Tux as its mascot yet. It didn’t take long for Linux to start its march on supercomputing.<\/p>\n

From when it first appeared on the TOP500 in 1998, Linux was on its way to the top. Before Linux took the lead, Unix was supercomputing’s top operating system. Since 2003, the TOP500 was on its way to Linux domination. By 2004, Linux had taken the lead for good. This happened for two reasons: First, since most of the world’s top supercomputers are research machines built for specialized tasks, each machine is a standalone project with unique characteristics and optimization requirements. To save costs, no one wants to develop a custom operating system for each of these systems. With Linux, however, research teams can easily modify and optimize Linux’s open-source code to their one-off designs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Slashdot shares the story: Linux rules supercomputing. This day has been coming since 1998, when Linux first appeared on the TOP500 Supercomputer list. Today, it finally happened:\u00a0All 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers are running Linux. The last two non-Linux systems, a pair of Chinese IBM POWER computers running AIX, dropped off the\u00a0November 2017 TOP500 … Continue reading All 500 of the World’s Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux #Linux","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[286],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-history"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12051,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/10\/interview-with-jim-zemlin-of-linux-foundation\/","url_meta":{"origin":28226,"position":0},"title":"Interview with Jim Zemlin of Linux Foundation","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"cnet runs an inspiring interview with Jim Zemlin, the executive director of Linux Foundation. \u00a0Interview covers the current state of Linux, Linux has contributed over $10 billion in R&D value to the world. 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