Customization, costs key to Linux HPC dominance - ZDNet Asia

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on November 24, 2011 8:23 AM | | TrackBacks (0)
Ability to configure operating system to users' needs and low costs mean more supercomputers powered by open source Linux over other systems, say industry watchers.

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Many of today's top supercomputers are running on Linux operating system (OS) as their users prefer the open source software's flexibility in customization as well as low costs compared with alternative proprietary OSes, observers said.

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According to the Top500 Supercomputer Web site, which tracks the latest happenings in high-performance computing machines, Linux OS constituted 82.8 percent of all supercomputers, with the next OS, AIX, coming in at a distant 5.6 percent as of November 2011.

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