CCL: best Linux for clusters

From: "Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) [E]" <venabler . nhlbi.nih.gov>
Subject: CCL: best Linux for clusters
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:02:54 -0400

 Sent to CCL by: "Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) [E]"
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 We have been re-evaluating the choice of CentOS for our cluster, and would like
 solicit comments on which freely available Linux flavor seems to be the best for
 scientific computing, in terms of performance, stability, ease of
 administration, and support for more commercial software (QM packages, Matlab,
 etc.) and hardware (Qlogic Infiniband boards and driver software).
 Besides CentOS, we are looking at Scientific Linux and Debian, but comments on
 other distributions are welcome.  If you (or someone in your group) can provide
 some detailed remarks noting good or bad features of specific Linux
 distributions, please send them to me and I will summarize to the list.
 Thank you.
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 Rick Venable     5635 FL/T906
 Membrane Biophysics Section
 NIH/NHLBI Lab. of Computational Biology
 Bethesda, MD  20892-9314   U.S.A.
 (301) 496-1905   venabler AT nhlbi*nih*gov