91 Super Computers Powered By Linux
The Top 500 Project lists the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world biannually. They have released this year�s list and in terms of the operating system used it is Linux all the way with more than 90% of the supercomputers running on Linux.
It is not surprising that Linux is generally preferred in supercomputers but the percentage (91%) is surprising.
Hers is a diagrammatic representation of the data. The larger boxes represents more powerful systems.
You can view this diagram and others like country-wise breakup , manufature-wise breakup etc in an interactive form at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm.
In case you want the actual numerical breakup of the Operating System Family, here it is:
And here is the Operating System breakdown:
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