Top 500 Supercomputers

[Brian Densmore]

http://clusters.top500.org/


Although the site *still* doesn't break down the computers
by OS, you will note that 3 or 4 of the top 5 are Linux
machines (1,2,4?,5). Anyone know what IBM blades run?
Also perusing the list you will also note that more than half of
the top 500 run Linux. So we can safely say now that Linux is 
the dominant OS for supercomputers. I also saw an article on cnet 
yesterday about M$ getting ready to release their own cluster friendly
version of Windows. They changed the name (surprise) from HPC to 
Compute Cluster Edition. Oh and it won't run on Itaniums only X86. 
Which begs the question, will it work on AMD chips? One thing I noticed 
a bit odd is that there are not more people building clusters with
the AMD 64. I would think the chip would have to scream in clusters.


In other news, Mozilla slashdotted itself today. 
The servers are clogged by downloads of Firefox 1.0.

Brian D.