Re:Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
by Cushman on Thursday July 05, 2012 @01:53PM
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You wound me, sir.
It has been noted by others (in the article, for example) that Linux is the undisputed king of high-performance computing, in the public sector at least. My only assumption is that that is not random, that there are reasons for it.
I'm not trying to lead the discourse anywhere -- I'm certainly not a Linux fanatic, if that's what you're implying. I just think it's utterly plausible that Linux, and the open source community in general, saved these people a whole bunch of time.
Re:Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
by jiggy2011 on Thursday July 05, 2012 @04:17PM
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I would imagine having an Open Source kernel is an advantage for very niche applications like this because you can add/change features that would be useless or detrimental to 99.9999% of users but would be useful in this instance.
I have no idea whether that was part of the reasoning for this or not though.
Re:Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
by flatline3 on Thursday July 05, 2012 @02:36PM
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> My only assumption is that that is not random, that there are reasons for it.
It's complicated, more so than can be adequately addressed here, and far beyond a simple question of Linux specifically "saving [people] a whole bunch of time".
This is a leading line of discourse -- you're strongly implying that Linux permitted more rapid development, but you don't appear to have any supportable justification for why that would be the case.