Why are most supercomputer using linux?

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Published on 2010-06-01T01:57:59Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 3:03 UTC
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Referring to this BBC Article: Supercomputing superpowers

Almost all the supercomputers are using Linux as operating system. Why is Linux so popular?

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