{"id":147,"date":"2014-08-04T23:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T23:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.blueshell.im\/Blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2020-08-16T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T08:47:57","slug":"linux-nears-total-domination-of-the-top500-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Linux Nears Total Domination of the Top500 Supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always been fun watching Linux claim a bit more of the Top500<\/a> with each successive ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, but with this week’s release of the Top500 list’s 43<\/a>rd<\/sup><\/a> edition<\/a>, it’s beginning to look like the free and open source operating system is getting pretty close to complete domination.<\/p>\n

Not only does Linux power all of the top 10 machines on the June 2014 list — including China’s winning Tianhe-2, which stole the show once again with its performance of 33.86 Petaflop\/second (Pflop\/s) on the Linpack benchmark — but it also now accounts for a full 97 percent of the full set of 500. A mere 15 supercomputers on the list *don’t* use Linux, including 12 using Unix and just two using Windows. (The last one is described simply as “Mixed.”)<\/p>\n

Just a year ago<\/a>, Linux’s share of the Top500 was 95.2 percent. At this rate, it’s only natural to speculate that Linux could claim a full 100 percent in not too long.<\/p>\n

Other highlights from this latest Top500 list include a new entry in the No. 10 spot — a 3.14 Pflop\/s Cray XC30 installed at an undisclosed U.S. government site — and an increase in the total combined performance of all 500 systems to 274 Pflop\/s, up from 250 Pflop\/s six months ago and 223 Pflop\/s one year ago. A full 37 systems on the list now offer performance greater than one Pflop\/s, compared with just 31 six months ago.<\/p>\n

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For Further Information see source Article http:\/\/www.linux.com\/news\/enterprise\/high-performance\/147-high-performance\/778179–linux-nears-total-domination-of-the-top500-supercomputers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always been fun watching Linux claim a bit more of the Top500 with each successive ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, but with this week’s release of the Top500 list’s 43rd edition, it’s beginning to look like the free and open source … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blueshell.im\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}