Re:All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running...
by b3lvedere on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:40PM
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Depends on what you want to do with it.
Basically anything else that operates on their hardware infrastructure is ok. Though it may be very challenging to get a useful supercomputer on very old operating systems.
I'm guessing one of the major factors to decide for Linux is this:
"The licensing cost of a custom, self-supported Linux distribution is the same, whether you're using 20 nodes or 20-million nodes."
Basically anything else that operates on their hardware infrastructure is ok. Though it may be very challenging to get a useful supercomputer on very old operating systems.
I'm guessing one of the major factors to decide for Linux is this:
"The licensing cost of a custom, self-supported Linux distribution is the same, whether you're using 20 nodes or 20-million nodes."