Linux and the Top500

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Linux is making a good showing in the latest Top500 list of supercomputers. Linux systems account for 8 out of the top 10. Of those eight, six are of IBM manufacture, including five Blue Gene systems and one PPC Cluster. A SGI Altix, and Thunder, an Intel Itanium2 Tiger4 “white box” system hold third and seventh place, respectively.

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