Vista's Problem: Microsoft Does Not Scale
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| It is deeply ironic that once upon a time Linux - and Linus - was taxed with
| an inability to scale. Today, though, when Linux is running everything from
| most of the world's supercomputers to the new class of sub-laptops like the
| Asus EEE PC and increasing numbers of mobile phones, it is Microsoft that
| finds itself unable to scale its development methodology to handle this
| range. Indeed, it can't even produce a decent desktop system, as the whole
| Vista fiasco demonstrates.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/vistas-problem-microsoft-does-not-scale.html
Another Linux PC...
Inside the UK's fastest machine
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| The High-End Computing Terascale Resource, or HECToR as it is known, owned by
| the Research Councils of the UK will be used by scientists to simulate
| everything from climate change to atomic structures. It could run at speeds
| of up to 100 teraflops and will be able to carry out up to 100 trillion
| calculations every second, 100,000 times faster than an ordinary computer.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/02/computing.climatechange
Related:
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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