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OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer_operating_system
Author: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benedikt.Seidl
Data from: http://top500.org/stats

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Ah hahahaha!!!!

Windows! Some dumbass put Windows on a supercomputer!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008 actually ranked 23 in TOP500 in June 2008.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I always forget that Windows Server even exists, because the name is so stupid. "windows" should mean "gui ~~interface~~ to os."

edit: fixed redundacy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

But Windows Server has GUI. Although a server having GUI (not webui, desktop) is kinda stupid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I'd say having a GUI is not inherently stupid. The stupid part is, if I understand it correctly, the GUI being a required component and the primary access method.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Prob Microsoft themselves

[–] [email protected] 50 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Ironically, even Microsoft uses Linux in its Azure datacenters, iirc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Apple uses both Linux and Windows (not for datacenters) too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Good point.

But still, the 30% efficient supercomputer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I don't think either of the chart's axes list efficiency?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago

Probably need one, just for the benchmark comparisons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

And Mac! Whatever that means 🤣