To date, open operating systems based on Linux are absolute leaders in the field of supercomputers. If you take 500 powerful devices on our planet, then they all use Linux. But the path to this success was very long and thorny.

For the first time, Linux was installed on a supercomputer in 1998, it was an American apparatus - Alpha EV56. In the late nineties in this area, the commercial versions of UNIX - Irix, Unicos, AIX or Solaris were leaded. Windows or Mac OS was not presented in the supercomputers market at all.

Linux won this area rapidly! Since 1998, the number of supercomputers with this system on board has grown from the 1st to the 71st apparatus, in just four years. And then - the boom began! In 2009, 448 devices switched to the Linux system and at the moment, it absolutely dominates the field of supercomputers.

Why is Linux so popular on supercomputers?

There are several reasons for this!

Of course, popular distributions, such as Ubuntu or Fedora, are not used on supercomputers. A unique Linux system is assembled under them, each component of which is optimized for working with supercomputer and its components.

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