Nine Out of Ten Fastest Supercomputers Run on Open Source
Nine Out of Ten Fastest Supercomputers Run on Open Source
Posted 03/15/2010 at 4:02pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Novell has perused the most recent list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, and nine of the top ten run on Linux. Not only that, but 85% of the entire list run Linux. It’s not hard to guess why Novell might take an interest in this; Novell’s SuSE Linux is the distro of choice in six of the top ten supercomputers.
After tabulations were complete, Novell wasted no time patting themselves on the back. “Supercomputers are helping to push the boundary of science and knowledge around the world, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell has been chosen as the optimal operating system to power many of these HPC environments for good reasons,” said Novell VP of Business Development Holger Dryoff.
The current king of the supercomputer hill is the Jaguar computer at the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge lab. It's quite a monster of a machine, capable of 2.3 petaflops. It runs Linux, but not Novell's SuSE. Rest assured, as soon as one of these supercomputers develops sentience and proceeds to wipe out humanity, odds are it will be running on open source. There will be no blue screen to save mankind.
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BAMT
March 16, 2010 at 3:07am
But first we need Trinity to crack SSH2 so we can get the root password (or change it).
deadsolid
March 15, 2010 at 10:22pm
Big Red at IU runs Red Hat Linux.
Edit: http://rc.uits.iu.edu/kb/index.php?kbID=aueo
Grapeman
March 15, 2010 at 8:10pm
"Did the machine just become sentient?" "OH MY GOD!!!...... Wait!!! Cannot find boot device... we're saved!!"
gendoikari1
March 15, 2010 at 8:18pm
"It became sentient! We're all gonna--kernel panic! Hooray!"
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dc10ten
March 17, 2010 at 4:20am
but if you are in the business world.
dont you typically pay for some kind of support anyway?
nadako
March 15, 2010 at 7:46pm
I bet none of them run MAC lol!! Oh and linux is free and it doesnt come installed with useless software and is great for writing programs on. Plus they wont have to worry about licence agreements.
gendoikari1
March 15, 2010 at 8:05pm
Except stuff like Red Hat, which the Jaguar is running, still requires money (1 year of basic support for RHEL is $349, and a special case like this probably costs in the several thousands).
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March 15, 2010 at 6:52pm
Rest assured, as soon as one of these supercomputers develops sentience
and proceeds to wipe out humanity, odds are it will be running on open
source. There will be no blue screen to save mankind.Hehe. That was clever. Besides playing Crysis (or whatever benchmark game we have now), I wonder how fast Jaguar can pump out results in Folding@Home.
CleverBullet
March 15, 2010 at 6:26pm
Why does the department of energy need this powerful of a supercomputer?
CleverBullet
March 16, 2010 at 11:51am
meh, seems odd because the DoE was started to lower our dependence on foreign oil
Dwood15
March 15, 2010 at 5:45pm
In the event of Linux becoming sentient, use sudo to make a bunch of them on our side.
DBsantos77
March 15, 2010 at 5:20pm
Just great. Now Linux is evil. FFS.
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nekollx
March 15, 2010 at 4:06pm
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He died for our sins you know.
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