Commodity hardware and Linux OS helps in building supercomputers at low-cost

The cost of supercomputers is less expensive due to the availability of open source Linux OS. SUSE is offering enterprise class server operating system in Linux. SUSE Linux enterprise server OS is used by more than one third of the top hundred supercomputers in the world. SUSE says in past few years there are significant changes in high performance computing due to open source and new clustering technologies. The cost of supercomputers is coming down due to availability of low-cost hardware and Linux OS. Computing power of supercomputers is increased 1000X from fast few years which enables even mid-size organizations to have a supercomputer equivalent server on a commodity type hardware. SUSE says it leads in this domain by offering scalable, flexible architecture which can handle large number of CPUs. “SUSE has invested heavily in developing solutions that enable the fastest computers in the world,” said Meike Chabowski, product marketing manager for Enterprise Linux Servers at SUSE. “The next step in supercomputing is to move from high performance to high productivity, and our partners like SGI, Cray and Teradata are helping to lead these advancements. Linux will continue to be an integral part of these revolutionary machines.” When there is a need to process huge amount of data in real-time there is a need of high performance computer to do that. In today's scenari...