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OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers (feddit.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surprised to learn that there were windows based Supercomputers.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those were the basic entry level configurations needed to run Windows Vista with Aero effects.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Now the real question is what package manager are they using? apt or yum? Lol

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they specifically built it to only use snaps

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are using pacman obviously :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

nah theyre using nixpkgs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Also, Gnome or KDE?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's probably mostly cli

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, but gterminal or konsole?

edit: apparently people didn't realise this was a really obvious joke

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

TTY

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's a terminal emulator

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

thatsthejoke.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can we get a source for this image?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Sure. Added it to the post.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Maybe windows is not used in supercomputers often because unix and linux is more flexiable for the cpus they use(Power9,Sparc,etc)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Plus Linux doesn't limit you in the number of drives, whereas Windows limits you from A to Z. I read it here.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

For people who haven’t installed Windows before, the default boot drive is G, and the default file system is C

So you only have 25 to work with (everything but G)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

G can be mapped after boot (usually to removable drives)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Ok that would make sense tbh

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