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Linux @lemmy.ml superkret @feddit.org 2d ago

OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers

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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Ah hahahaha!!!!

Windows! Some dumbass put Windows on a supercomputer!
- Prob Microsoft themselves
  
  Ironically, even Microsoft uses Linux in its Azure datacenters, iirc
  
  They use a mixture of Windows and Linux. They do use Linux quite a bit, but they also have a lot of Hyper-V servers.
  
  True. Never meant to say they use Linux exclusively; thanks for clarification anyway!
  
  Apple uses both Linux and Windows (not for datacenters) too.
- A supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008 actually ranked 23 in TOP500 in June 2008.
  
  I always forget that Windows Server even exists, because the name is so stupid. "windows" should mean "gui ~~interface~~ to os."
  
  edit: fixed redundacy.
  
  But Windows Server has GUI. Although a server having GUI (not webui, desktop) is kinda stupid
  
  The GUI is optional these days, and there's plenty of Windows servers that don't use it. The recommended administration approach these days is PowerShell remoting, often over SSH now that Windows has a native SSH server bundled (based on OpenSSH).
  
  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.
- Probably need one, just for the benchmark comparisons.
- And Mac! Whatever that means 🤣
- Oh Xserve, we hardly knew ye 😢

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