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Sheer curiousity about two things.

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Ridcully

Jun 01, 2010
6:34 PM EDT 		Myself and another Linux devotee have been debating this set of figures and if there are any answers to the questions below, we'd like to know.

1. The stats show that 1% still run Windows. Why ? In the light of the "better than 9/10ths running Linux/Unix" one gets the feeling that using Windows on a supercomputer seems to be a either a backward step or stay with the devil you know.

2. The figures don't add up. There is about 4% unaccounted. What is this group running ?
numbers

Jun 01, 2010
6:53 PM EDT 		Maybe that one is in Redmond.
Ridcully

Jun 01, 2010
9:05 PM EDT 		What can I say except............LOL, and then some......... :-)
azerthoth

Jun 01, 2010
10:02 PM EDT 		Ridcully there are still the odds that there are RYO's out there, and in the list of UNIX, were BSD's included?
Sander_Marechal

Jun 02, 2010
4:12 AM EDT 		@Ridiculy: Easy.

1) People use supercomputers to do things, not just to beat benchmarks. There's probably some software out there in supercomputer land that still needs Windows HPC to run.

2) That 4% is BSD (0.2%) and mixed systems. This is when there are several OSes working in tandem. E.g. a custom OS to communicate between nodes and Linux to run the software that does the hard work. Have a look at the original stats here: http://www.top500.org/stats/list/35/osfam
Ridcully

Jun 02, 2010
7:35 AM EDT 		Thanks everybody........One of the nicest things about LXer debating/comments threads is the courtesy that is extended to everybody and the genuine desire to help. There are other sites (no names, no courtmartials) where comments are savaged and personal attacks rule the day.........Again.......thanks. :-)
TxtEdMacs

Jun 02, 2010
7:58 AM EDT 		Ridcully,

Quoting: [...] [questions are treated with] courtesy that is extended to everybody and the genuine desire to help. There are other [places] where [questioners] are savaged and personal attacks rule the day...
Just a bit of advice, stay away from the Debian help forum on those days.

YBT
jacog

Jun 02, 2010
7:59 AM EDT 		STFO GTFO NOOB!!11!!1! :D

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