superkret@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-27 hours agoOS market share in Top 500 supercomputersfeddit.orgimagemessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1630arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1624arrow-down1imageOS market share in Top 500 supercomputersfeddit.orgsuperkret@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-27 hours agomessage-square115fedilinkfile-text
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer_operating_system Author: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benedikt.Seidl Data from: http://top500.org/stats
minus-squareMwa@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·9 hours agoMaybe windows is not used in supercomputers often because unix and linux is more flexiable for the cpus they use(Power9,Sparc,etc)
minus-squareMatt@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-252 minutes agoPlus Linux doesn’t limit you in the number of drives, whereas Windows limits you from A to Z. I read it here.
minus-squareViper_NZ@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoYou can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 hours agoFor people who haven’t installed Windows before, the default boot drive is G, and the default file system is C So you only have 25 to work with (everything but G)
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoG can be mapped after boot (usually to removable drives)
Maybe windows is not used in supercomputers often because unix and linux is more flexiable for the cpus they use(Power9,Sparc,etc)
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.
For people who haven’t installed Windows before, the default boot drive is G, and the default file system is C
So you only have 25 to work with (everything but G)
G can be mapped after boot (usually to removable drives)
Ok that would make sense tbh