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[Discuss] Linux has 100% of Market Share.



Digital/Compaq was a big player in that market, but when HP acquired
Digital, they did not want to spend the bucks in that niche market.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Marco Milano <marco.milano at gmx.com> wrote:

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> On 06/09/2018 12:11 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 11:11 AM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> the Top500 statistics include Historical charts. You can see how
>>> recently the last 2 AIX systems were pushed out of  Top500, how "mixed OS"
>>> had a brief surge early last decade, etc.
>>>
>>> https://www.top500.org/statistics/overtime/
>>>
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>> Thanks for the pointer to those charts.  100% Linux was apparently
>> reached in last November's list so that is a very recent thing.
>> The dominance of Linux goes back well over a decade with which I was
>> aware.
>>
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> Most of the computational power is coming from the GPU units.
> You can probably use almost any OS and still come on top on those
> benchmarks as long as you have sufficient number of GPU units.
> I don't think the top500 as relevant as before, it is more like a pissing
> match between USA and China these days.
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