Somewhat OT: Top 500 list

[Jack]

There has been a change to the reports of the top 500
supercomputer list. They now indicate which OSes are
run on the systems in the top 500. A ***whopping***
78.2% (or 391) of all the top 500 supercomputers run a
linux flavor or Linux compined with something else.
Not sure what that is an indication of. A mixed Linux
+ ? OS? What's up with that? Oh yeah, 4 BSDs and 5
Macs. One of those MACs is *homegrown* and made the
top 15, homegrown being made by the company, which
looks like it may do some hush-hush work for the DOD.