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OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers

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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What would the other be
- TempleOS
  
  When you really have to look deep into god's mind you just have to put templeOS on a supercomputer.
  
  If you install TempleOS on the fastest supercomputer Frontier, you get Event Horizon.
  WARNING: Gory, disturbing picture
  
  Do NOT network-enable TempleOS.
  God will get angry if you do.
  
  What movie/tv show is this image from?
  
  Event Horizon
  
  Praise be upon him
  
  a glowie's worst nightmare
- You mean the NA/Mixed category?
  Probably mostly z/OS and BS2000.
  Or actually a mix between Linux and Unix.
  
  How can there be N/A though? How can any functional computer not have an operating system? Or is just reading the really big MHz number of the CPU count as it being a supercomputer?
  
  Early computers didn't have operating systems.
  You just plugged in a punch card or tape with the program you want to run and the computer executed those exact instructions and nothing else.
  Those programs were specifically written for that exact hardware (not even for that model, but for that machine).
  To boot up the computer, you had to put a number of switches into the correct position (0 or 1), to bring its registers in the correct state to accept programs.
  So you were the BIOS and bootloader, and there was no need for an OS because the userspace programs told the CPU directly what bits to flip.
  
  They ofcouse had one, probably linux, or unix. But that information, about the cluster, is not available.
  
  Thanks for the links!

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