I'll bear this in mind the next time I'm building a supercomputer, rather than an enterprise system.
</flamebait> -- Boyd Adamson On Monday, 16 July 2012 at 8:10 PM, Chris Wells wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Russell Page <russellp...@foxhat.net > (mailto:russellp...@foxhat.net)> wrote: > > > > "Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." > > - -Henry Spencer > > > > This has been done. It's called Linux. > > > > > > Wow another 'My OS is superior' flame bait posting. Well, Supposing you're > right - > > Linux only runs on 462 out of 500 of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux, > and the first non-Linux supercomputer only made it into place 25. > There are only 7 Oracle supercomputers in the list, and all 7 run Linux, and > none of them on SPARC. > There are 5 Fujitsu computers running on SPARC, 4 of them Linux (including > #2). The only non-Linux one is running OpenSolaris (remember that), which has > now dropped from place 101 to place 160. Clearly Linux/x64 is the winner > here, but if you must run SPARC, it works best with Linux, obviously. > > And it's enterprise enough to be Mainframe-ready. - > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/about/index.html . > > This ain't the '90s. The Linux of now is vastly different to the Linux of > then.... > > YMMV > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > ug-msosug mailing list > ug-msosug@opensolaris.org (mailto:ug-msosug@opensolaris.org) > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-msosug > >
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