Linux almost dominates top 500 computer

                     

                                                                     This week's most recent release of the Top 500 list of supercomputers reveals to us what many had already suspected: that the Linux operating system almost dominates all systems when it comes to super computing and complex math applications. Not only does Linux power all of the top ten machines on the June 2014 list, including China's winning Tianhe-2 supercomputing node, which stole the show once again with its performance of 33.86 Petaflop/second on the Linpack benchmark, but it also now accounts for a full 97.2 percent of the full set of 500.