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Every top-500 supercomputer runs Linux

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The most powerful machines on earth collectively looked at Windows and said 'absolutely not'. The top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world—running complex climate models, quantum simulations, and advanced AI—all operate on some variation of Linux. The open-source penguin basically runs the entire high-end computing world while we struggle with mandatory updates.

Every top-500 supercomputer runs Linux
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