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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
All supercomputers are performing very primitive batch jobs: open file, read data, calculate something, open another file, and write data. Multiplication of 1,000,000,000 of 1,000,000x1,000,000 matrices is as trivial as 2 5x5 ones. Since '80s computers become used for more sophisticated tasks, and UNIX/Linux missed the train.
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You do realize that, ultimately, all digital computers work with binary code, right? All digital computers, no matter how primitive or modern and no matter how fast or slow, ultimately work with zeros and ones (like off and on switches). The computer with the most computing power is the one that can do the most work per second. That means supercomputers running on Linux are vastly superior to your PC. There's a reason supercomputers use Linux, it's called scalability. You can't do what Linux supercomputers do with Windows. Just won't happen. And you don't write word processing applications for supercomputers because that's an extreme waste of their power.
But this too ridiculous to go on. I'll try to let you have the last word.