From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Oct 28 17:27:00 2011 From: "David A Mannock dmannock-.-ualberta.ca" To: CCL Subject: CCL: best Linux for clusters Message-Id: <-45771-111028172441-11787-IH+vapOhCu6OTPSzpaz0Xg%server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: David A Mannock Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd574eeedea7604b062830b Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:24:33 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: David A Mannock [dmannock]-[ualberta.ca] --000e0cd574eeedea7604b062830b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I find that Ubuntu 10.04 is a good stable GUI OS which has no problem with the QC packages that I am running on AMD opteron processors/Supemicro dual 1207 motherboard. Dave On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) E venabler() nhlbi.nih.gov wrote: > > Sent to CCL by: "Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) [E]" [venabler#%# > nhlbi.nih.gov] > > 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. > > -- > 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> > > --000e0cd574eeedea7604b062830b Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I find that Ubuntu 10.04 is a good stable GUI OS which has no problem with = the QC packages that I am running on AMD opteron processors/Supemicro dual = 1207 motherboard. Dave

On Fri, Oct 28, 20= 11 at 1:02 PM, Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) E venabler()nhlbi.nih.gov <owner-chemistry^-^ccl.net> wrote:

Sent to CCL by: "Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) [E]" [venabler#%#nhlbi.nih.gov]

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 th= e best for scientific computing, in terms of performance, stability, ease o= f administration, and support for more commercial software (QM packages, Ma= tlab, 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. =A0If you (or someone in your group) c= an provide some detailed remarks noting good or bad features of specific Li= nux distributions, please send them to me and I will summarize to the list.=

Thank you.

--
Rick Venable =A0 =A0 5635 FL/T906
Membrane Biophysics Section
NIH/NHLBI Lab. of Computational Biology
Bethesda, MD =A020892-9314 =A0 U.S.A.
(301) 496-1905<= /a> =A0 venabler AT nhlbi*nih*gov



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