ARM and Linux take the crown of the TOP500 supercomputer

For years, x86 and Linux processors have ruled supercomputing. Linux still runs 500 of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers. For almost the same time, x86 CPUs have dominated supercomputers, until now. On June 22, Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer, powered by Fujitsu’s 48-core A64FX SoC and powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), …

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