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OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A supercomputer running Windows HPC Server 2008 actually ranked 23 in TOP500 in June 2008.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I always forget that Windows Server even exists, because the name is so stupid. "windows" should mean "gui ~~interface~~ to os."

edit: fixed redundacy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

But Windows Server has GUI. Although a server having GUI (not webui, desktop) is kinda stupid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd say having a GUI is not inherently stupid. The stupid part is, if I understand it correctly, the GUI being a required component and the primary access method.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah. Thankfully, Windows server cleaned up that stupidity starting around 2006 and finished in around 2018.

Which all sounds fine until we meditate on the history that basically all other server operating systems have had efficient remote administration solutions since before 1995 (reasonable solutions existed before SSH, even).

Windows was over 20 years late to adopt non-grapgical low latency (aka sane) options for remote administration.

I think it's a big part of the reason Windows doesn't appear much on this chart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The GUI is optional these days, and there's plenty of Windows servers that don't use it. The recommended administration approach these days is PowerShell remoting, often over SSH now that Windows has a native SSH server bundled (based on OpenSSH).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That gives me the idea of windows server installed on bare metal configured as a lightweight game runner. (much like a linux distro with minimal wm)

I've seen people using slightly modified windows server as an unbloated gaming OS but I'm not sure if running a custom minimal GUI on windows server is possible. You seem knowledgeable on the subject, with enough effort, is it possible?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Would a Windows Enterprise 10 LTSC IoT edition be better than Windows Server though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think I know enough to answer that question, sorry!