How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge)

Posted Nov 22, 2005 15:16 UTC (Tue) by hjf (guest, #34031)
In reply to: How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge) by jwb
Parent article: How will Linux be leveraged in next-gen supercomputers? (NewsForge)

> Even for new non-cluster supercomputer designs, I suspect Linux
> will eventually be the chosen operating system, if only because
> you have to start somewhere, and Linux is a great place to start.
> Suppose you had designed a shiny new shared-everything massively
> parallel vector architecture and needed an operating system to
> run thereon. You could write your own of course, or you could try
> to convince IBM or Sun to port theirs. But why not start with Linux?
> It is portable and can deal with huge number of CPUs and vast I/O
> capabilities. And, since Linux is GPL, you can hack it to pieces to
> fit your needs.
>
> Unless these new supercomputers are radically incompatible with the
> Unix operating model, I'd bet on Linux eventually dominating the market.

Perhaps not. Have you looked at opensolaris.org lately?
Not GPL, uses CDDL, but already more scalable today than
Linux.

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