Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Nov 2007 16:17 UTC, submitted by diegocg
The twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is expected to become an hot topic of discussion as the latest list shows five new entrants in the Top 10, which is a big turnover and shows how active the supercomputer market is. 71% Of the supercomputers now use Intel processors, a big grow from 58% 6 months ago. Linux monopolizes the OS area with 85% of the supercomputers (77% 6 months ago) using Linux-based operative systems.
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2005-07-06
"why not many rum BSD? "
Why not ** ANY ** run BSD , the reality is today in the top 500 there is zero BSD. ( BSD based ( Mac OS X , Super-UX ) using BSD code ( all of them )But no BSD kernel and OS based.)
http://www.top500.org/charts/list/30/os
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/30/os
BSD
1) It's broken.
2) It's illegal.
3) Nobody support it.
4) Nobody Financially support creation of one and fix it's broken parts , change and remove there illegal parts or pay someone to support it.
5) No community work done for changes
6) BSD don't care so they don't mater.
7) No legal protection.
http://www.top500.org/charts/list/30/vendors
When out of IBM , DELL , Linux networx , Cray , HP , SGI , others aka all of the vendor of supercomputer and maker of them NONE of them sale or actively support or is created for the purpose of supporting BSD.
"It's tied with Mac OS X Server for heaven's sake!"
Mac OS X is not used/sold/supported as a server OS or supercomputer OS by anyone outside Apple vendor support base. Apple is not pushing server solutions , and is not respected as a supplier of server and server OS ( only on Apple Hardware is a big turn off for the majority of server user's and that use to mean PPC based computers. )
BSD's people have been living in a lie and there own hubris for 4 decades.
BSD's ( who are really anti-themself , auto-destructive and paranoiac ) have this fabulation that an OS supported by the current best hardware maker and vendor and by multi billion company and the best BSD minds who all now work on GNU/Linux is inferior to there pathetic offer and work and results.
What can I say , Moron here , will tell you I am anti-BSD to explain why they have zero ( less then 10 identified as BSD based even do they had 2 decade before GNU/Linux became a reality ) supercomputer running there OS. It's annoying them to have someone who would like BSD to be on par with GNU/Linux , because everyone who is sane and an expert like me will tell you :
A strong , independent , realistic , pragmatic and competitive BSD would make for a stronger and better GNU/Linux. They would also be close or on par or superior in number to GNU/Linux in usage and installation based across the many category we put on OS ( supercomputer , server , desktop , workstation ). This also mean that they would get investment from the hardware maker for the driver to support there OS.
From zero one can only go up , but it's not by fighting over others quality and false perception and false reality you have about the world that you will improve yourself.
The moron and real Anti-BSD can mod me down now.
Edited 2007-11-14 03:29