Fastest Computers on the Planet Run Linux

Here is an interesting article at ComputerWorld, “Linux: It doesn’t Get Any Faster” which discusses the current semi-annual ranking of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.

In High Performance Computing (HPC) speed is the only thing that matters and 88.6% of these supercomputers run on Linux. Another 5.8% of supercomputers run a hybrid version of Linux and Unix.  Only 1% of the world’s supercomputers run Windows.

The world’s fastest computer is the IBM Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a capacity of 1.105 petaflops using 129,600 CPU cores. That is 1.105 quadrillion (1,105,000,000,000,000) floating point operations per second (flops). And it runs Linux.

Top 500 List links:

• The complete list.
• Link to the Operating Systems Family Share statistics.
• Link to the List Introduction.

The Need for Speed

Most of us don’t need to power a supercomputer and your computer may have only one, two or four cores instead of 129,600, but you should be able to count on having all of the performance of every processor core you paid for when you need it. And you should not be robbed of any of that performance by the CPU cycle stealing spyware, virii, worms and other malware that permeates the world of Windows.

If you are ready to extract all of the speed that your computer can give, it is time to consider Linux. Contact us at Millennium Technology Consulting LLC to get all the performance you paid for out of your PC hardware.