OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers
OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers
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Ah hahahaha!!!!
Windows! Some dumbass put Windows on a supercomputer!
Prob Microsoft themselves
Good point.
But still, the 30% efficient supercomputer.
Heh. I don't think that number was ever official, but I heard it as well.
Heh. I don't think that number was ever official, but I heard it as well.
I don't think either of the chart's axes list efficiency?
Probably need one, just for the benchmark comparisons.
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
interfaceto 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.
Yeah. Thankfully, Windows server cleaned up that stupidity starting around 2006 and finished in around 2018.
Which all sounds fine until we meditate on the history that basically all other server operating systems have had efficient remote administration solutions since before 1995 (reasonable solutions existed before SSH, even).
Windows was over 20 years late to adopt non-grapgical low latency (aka sane) options for remote administration.
I think it's a big part of the reason Windows doesn't appear much on this chart.
And Mac! Whatever that means 🤣
Oh Xserve, we hardly knew ye 😢