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Technically accurate
Surprised to learn that there were windows based Supercomputers.
Those were the basic entry level configurations needed to run Windows Vista with Aero effects.
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Now the real question is what package manager are they using? apt or yum? Lol
Portage (Gentoo)
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Maybe windows is not used in supercomputers often because unix and linux is more flexiable for the cpus they use(Power9,Sparc,etc)
More importantly, they can't adapt Windows to their needs.
Yep the other reason.
Plus Linux doesn't limit you in the number of drives, whereas Windows limits you from A to Z. I read it here.
You can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.
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So basically, everybody switched from expensive UNIX™ to cheap "unix"-in-all-but-trademark-certification once it became feasible, and otherwise nothing has changed in 30 years.
Except this time the Unix-like took 100% of the market
Was too clear this thing is just better
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Ah hahahaha!!!!
Windows! Some dumbass put Windows on a supercomputer!
Prob Microsoft themselves
Ironically, even Microsoft uses Linux in its Azure datacenters, iirc
They use a mixture of Windows and Linux. They do use Linux quite a bit, but they also have a lot of Hyper-V servers.
True. Never meant to say they use Linux exclusively; thanks for clarification anyway!
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