Does Linux scale?
According to the Top500 supercomputers website, Linux cluster is in the Top 5 fastest clusters in the world. Some of these Linux clusters in the Top 500 are found in national institutions such as: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Other than these government operated organizations, many high performance, server-based products manufactured by the giants in the computer industry also support Linux. For example, IBM’s mainframe class S/390 and zSeries eServer, HP’s AlphaServer, SGI’s latest Altix 3000 server with support for 64 CPUs.Of the many functions that Linux provide, it is predominantly used as web servers.Google, considered as the most powerful and versatile search engine by many, runs on one of thelargest Linux clusterin the world. Having over 8,000 systems, using proprietary operating system such as Unix would be too costly. However, using off-the-shelf, unbranded Intel-po
