I remember Linus mentioning [0] about the major benefits of tuning Linux for super computers that came to be really useful for when trying to get performance out of a mobile phones decades later.
All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
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Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#12A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he's doing just fine however: "Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel." Source: https://www.therichest.c…
Interesting, that site says his background is actually Swedish(-speaking, at least).
>Born Linus Benedict Torvalds on December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, Torvalds is the son of journalists Ana and Nils Torvalds who belong to the Swedish-speaking minority.
Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#13A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he's doing just fine however: "Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel." Source: https://www.therichest.c…
Linus is awesome, and he deserves all of his success/money, and possibly more. But it is also important to recognize all of the others that were involved in making Linux such a success. Linux w/ only Linus would not have been the success it is today.
Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#14A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he's doing just fine however: "Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel." Source: https://www.therichest.c…
Instead of all the money funneling into one person/org, that wealth (and several times more) was spread to the many people who built things on Linux.
Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#15A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he's doing just fine however: "Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel." Source: https://www.therichest.c…
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Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#16Serious question (not in IT), what else can they run?
Blue Gene runs Plan 9 and Inferno
Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#17Ronald Minnich (if you don't know him see [1]) comments :
[1] https://share-ng.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/san...
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"The semiannual TOP500 Supercomputer List was released yesterday. It also shows that China now claims 202 systems within the TOP500, while the United States claims 143 systems."
My fellow Americans:
Did you ever want to directly experience the transition to being a Tier 2 country? This is what it's like. It starts with the cancellation of the collider in Texas in 1994 (see Tyson's comments on that one). It continues as steady decline through the next two decades, under both Republicans and Democrats, and now it is reaching its culmination in the Trump administration with the replacement of scientists by political hacks. It's not fun. It's quite sad to watch, that's for sure.
Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#18A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he's doing just fine however: "Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel." Source: https://www.therichest.c…
Instead of all the money funneling into one person/org, that wealth (and several times more) was spread to the many people who built things on Linux.
The vast majority of money made on open source actually lines the pockets of executives. Linus' wealth and the salaries of all the deverlopers who build Linux or stuff on Linux combined is less by far.
Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#19A win for open source. I was just thinking the other day that it's a shame that Linus is not a billionaire. Seems he's doing just fine however: "Finnish-American software engineer and hacker Linus Torvalds has as estimated net worth of $150 million and an estimated annual salary of $10 million. He earned his net worth as the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel." Source: https://www.therichest.c…
Interesting, that site says his background is actually Swedish(-speaking, at least). >Born Linus Benedict Torvalds on December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, Torvalds is the son of journalists Ana and Nils Torvalds who belong to the Swedish-speaking minority.
When I visited Finland for this year's Worldcon (SF convention) I learned that all Finns learn Finnish and Swedish, the two official languages of Finland. Knowing some German, I found the Swedish street signs more helpful than the Finnish ones!
Re: All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Instead of all the money funneling into one person/org, that wealth (and several times more) was spread to the many people who built things on Linux.
The vast majority of money made on open source actually lines the pockets of executives. Linus' wealth and the salaries of all the deverlopers who build Linux or stuff on Linux combined is less by far.
Many of those execs were undergrads or industry swes before they made their billions. Linux and open source should deserve some of the credit for their success.