Tech Ping
Los Alamos has been using “Beowulf Clusters”, 16 off the shelf PC’s running Linux and networked, to model tectonic plate behavior and solar flare behavior. Cheaper than a Cray.
These are not just computers. They are committees, or you might say mobs, of tied-together computers. Some of them have over 200,000 individual processors.
I think most of the individual processors are all doing the same thing.
“When it comes to high-performance, it’s a Linux world.”
Linux is pretty amazing. It’s what happens when fallible humans apply engineering principles (however chaotic) over decades. It now dominates the scene everywhere except corporate computing, which consists of Windows laptops, desktops and servers for internal business use.
Linux runs on everything from all 500 top supercomputers, to every phone running Android. It runs on even smaller devices embedded in toasters, toys and who knows what. You can buy a complete credit card sized computer to learn and develop on for under $100 total. Most prominently, Linux powers most Internet servers, whether running databases, web servers, or a myriad of other compute chores.
Something better is needed, and will come along at some point. Neither Windows nor macOS are it. Linux is like democracy, “The worst possible system except for all the rest.” Speaking of democracy, it’s worth considering the free aspects of Linux, and it’s tremendous contribution to entrepreneurial innovation!
I’m typing this from Ubuntu Chrome, running a beautiful 2560x1440 (1440P) desktop on my primary monitor. Hat’s off to Linux!
The tags at the top work, such as http://freerepublic.com/tag/scotus/, and I can navigate to threads by number, like http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3859124/posts.
I know not everyone is having this issue, cause there are a lot of current threads and comments. But it's not a install-specific, either, because it's doing it on both my phone and computer.
Win 7 Ultimate on the PC
Opera v68.0
Android phone