Hi folks,
The latest TOP500 list of supercomputers was released yesterday,
with no real surprises - just continuation of the existing megatrends in favour
of clustered commodity systems running Linux. The list is here:
http://www.top500.org/
To view the 12-year trend chart as classified by OS, see this link:
http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/06/overtime.php?c=8
Linux has moved from 0% in 1998 to about 70% in 2005.
All M$ OSes combined are stuck at the same level
as in 1993, namely 0%.
To view the 12-year trend chart by manufacturer, see:
http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/06/overtime.php?c=7
The big increases are by IBM & HP, who offer both
proprietary and Linux clusters. They've have increased
their combined share from about 5% in 1993 to about
80% in 2005, mostly at the expense of proprietary
vector vendors Cray, Fujitsu & NEC; and specialized
scientific computing vendors Intel & TMC. These 5
had a combined share of 80% in 1993 and have now
been decimated down to about 5% in 2005, with two
total wipe-outs (Intel Scientific and TMC).
Our little Penguin has come a long way, very
quickly, when nobody was looking.
On a related note, a large storage cluster (1500 Terabytes)
running Linux has been recently delivered to the Internet Archive,
home of The Wayback Machine:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2659179152.html
-Siva