If you look at the guts of some of the world’s fastest supercomputers, you might be surprised at how much open source technology you find. Linux has long powered many significant supercomputers, and the Ubuntu Insights blog recently noted that China’s Tianhe-2, the world’s fastest supercomputer, runs both Ubuntu and OpenStack.
China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developed Tianhe-2, and the organization is collaborating with Canonical.
As we’ve covered, there have recently been several articles from publications including the Wall Street Journal and ReadWriteWeb stating that Red Hat won’t support customers who choose a rival OpenStack distribution. There is much controversy, surrounding the issue, and Mirantis’ Boris Renski has an interesting post up about the issue. “We are currently in active talks with Red Hat to collaborate on supporting RHEL for customers who choose the Mirantis OpenStack distribution,” he writes, as he forwards a number of points about how Red Hat’s policies could be more inclusive.
