Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on July 1, 2013 4:11 pm wrote:
> On the other hand, "massively-parallel FP calculations" field would be heavily impacted,
> because here quite often users programs depends on Linux-specific details, rather than on
> higher level portable abstractions. And even when users programs do depend on abstractions,
> implementations of these abstractions on non-Linux platforms are often either unavailable
> or far less mature. Or available and mature, but on less cost-effective hardware.

With all the bizarre things that exists in the HPC world do you thing this kind of backward compatibility matters so much?

I don't really know, but I think the fact of Lunix being so cheap is the number 1 reason for it's success followed by avaliable software.