Why Are Supercomputers Running On Linux?

: Είναι γνωστό. Οι σούπερ υπολογιστές τρέχουν με το συγκεκριμένο λειτουργικό σύστημα. Στο τελευταίο διαγωνισμό Top500 supercomputer, which took place in June of 2017, 498 from 500 supercomputers operated Linux. The other two used Unix as a functional one.

These were two IBM POWER Chinese AIX-run computers located at the bottom of the list. The machines were found at 493 and 494, while from Top500 held in November 2016, these supercomputers fell over 100 positions.

At this rate, Tux's operating system will have the dominant position in the next Top500 contest every two years.Linux

When the first hyper directory was created as of the Top500 in June 1993, Linux was more of a toy than a serious operating system and hadn't adopted Tux as its mascot yet.

From 1998, which first appeared on Top500, Linux dominated very fast in ultra-modern calculation.

Prior to taking over Linux, Unix was the top supercomputing operating system. From 2003, however, Top500 showed Linux to go beyond Unix, and until 2004, Linux had taken the lead for the better.

Why

According to by The , the rise of Linux in 20 years of Top500.org competitions with advances in computational performance, is due to two reasons.

First:

Most of the world's leading supercomputers are super-scalable research machines built for specialized tasks. Every super it is an autonomous project with unique features and very high optimization requirements. Thus, it is not affordable to develop a custom operating system for each system. With Linux, engineering teams can easily modify and optimize the operating system because of its open with innovative designs that characterize modern supercomputers.

Second and equally important:

"The cost of licensing a custom, self-supporting Linux distribution is the same, whether used on 20 nodes or 20 million nodes."

Thus, "by leveraging the huge open source community of the operating system, the projects had access to free support resources and developers, something that keeps developer costs equal to or below other operating systems."

Thus, supercomputing , and many computers other than desktops running Windows will continue to use Linux.

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