I found this on wikipedia today about operating system usage amongst super-computers :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_systems_used_on_top_500_supercomputers.svg
And I found that highly interesting. I come from an academic background, and work currently at a large university within the IT department, we have a very impressive supercomputer which is running on scientific linux, mainly to run Unix like applications such as mathmatica etc..
It got me think, why has there been a trend to switch from Unix to Linux as the main operating system for super computers in recent years? What are your thoughts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_systems_used_on_top_500_supercomputers.svg
And I found that highly interesting. I come from an academic background, and work currently at a large university within the IT department, we have a very impressive supercomputer which is running on scientific linux, mainly to run Unix like applications such as mathmatica etc..
It got me think, why has there been a trend to switch from Unix to Linux as the main operating system for super computers in recent years? What are your thoughts?