China wins again with it’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer. According to a BBC article, this came as a surprise as the machine was not supposed to be ready by 2015. Anyway, what brings smile on my face is that the beast runs Kylin OS, a version of Linux developed by the National University of Defense Technology (China) for the Chinese military & other government organizations.
As of June 2013, the top 10 fastest supercomputers are as follows:
| Name | Operating System | Country |
| Tianhe-2 | Kylin Linux | China |
| Titan | Cray Linux Environment | US |
| Sequoia | Linux | US |
| K computer | Linux | Japan |
| Mira | Linux | US |
| Stampede | Linux | US |
| Juqueen | Linux | Germany |
| Vulcan | Linux | US |
| SuperMuc | Linux | Germany |
| Tianhe-1A | Linux | China |
Yeah! Linux everywhere (^^,) …
Here’s a nice pie-chart generated from the top500.org‘s website:
