CCL: best Linux for clusters



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 <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 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



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