{"id":17013,"date":"2017-11-15T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2017-11-15T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T19:49:39","slug":"%e2%80%8blinux-totally-dominates-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17013","title":{"rendered":"\u200bLinux totally dominates supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 1993\/1994, at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling designed a Commodity Off The Shelf (COTS) supercomputer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beowulf.org\/overview\/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beowulf<\/a>. Since they couldn&#8217;t afford a traditional supercomputer, they built a cluster computer made up of 16 Intel 486 DX4 processors, which were connected by channel bonded Ethernet. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beowulf.org\/overview\/history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beowulf supercomputer<\/a> was an instant success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linux-totally-dominates-supercomputers\/\">\u200bLinux totally dominates supercomputers | ZDNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Linux first appeared on the Top500 in 1998. Before Linux took the lead, Unix was supercomputing&#8217;s top operating system. Since 2003, the Top500 was on its way to Linux domination. By 2004, Linux had taken the lead for good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1993\/1994, at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling designed a Commodity Off The Shelf (COTS) supercomputer: Beowulf. Since they couldn&#8217;t afford a traditional supercomputer, they built a cluster computer made up of 16 Intel 486 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[51,114,61,447],"class_list":["post-17013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-clustering","tag-computer-architecture","tag-linux","tag-supercomputers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17014,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions\/17014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}