Somewhat OT: Top 500 list

[Kendrick]

Jack wrote:

>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.
>  
>
That wouldent be suprising..  the mac's have a video processing card
made specificaly for visualising sonardata and such.  I  stumbled across
that card one day and havent found it since :/
It wouldent suprise me if that was doing image prosessing on satalite
data or somthing