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martyb
on Thursday November 20 2014, @08:20PM
from the waiting-for-the-supercomputer-on-the-desktop dept.
from the waiting-for-the-supercomputer-on-the-desktop dept.
For years, Linux has dominated supercomputing. The November 2014 Top 500 supercomputer ranking found 485 out of the world's fastest 500 computers running Linux. That's 97 percent for those of you without a calculator at hand.
I became a little curious about what distro supercomputers run, and ran across a distro targeted directly at them: Rocks. The fastest supercomputer in the world today, Tianhe-2, runs a distro called Kylin which interestingly, used to be based on FreeBSD but is now Linux-based.
[Ed's note: See our earlier story: Top-500 Supercomputer Race Goes Cold.]
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This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it.
(Score: 2) by novak on Thursday November 20 2014, @10:30PM
The school I went to uses Rocks on their HPC cluster. At least, on the cluster I got runtime on.
novak