Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson
Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson
Posted Nov 21, 2014 23:47 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313)In reply to: Today's Debian technical committee resignation: Ian Jackson by Kamilion
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> when we have supercomputers that have 4096 CPU packages running Single System Image linux, and counted as one computer just the same as the dualcore galaxy S3 in my pocket.
supercomputers are not running a single system image, so they would count as hundreds or thousands of computers.
unfortunately for the stats, they only cound people who bother reporting that they are running linux, so if the supercomputer operator doesn't go out of their way to report the thousands of machines, they won't be visible to the stats.
The same thing goes for all the machines that Google runs in their datacenter. There are a lot of them and Google won't tell you how many, but the fact that they are missing from the stats makes a noticeable difference. The same thing applies to msot corporate datacenters and cloud systems, you don't know how many instances of Linux are running, and have no way of knowing.