Linux, the open-source operating system, might not be replacing Windows anytime soon on most professors’ desktop machines, but the software seems to have found an important niche: It has become the first choice for high-speed-computing experts. More than half of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers now run the operating system—a tribute, researchers say, to the software’s flexibility and power.



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