CCL: best Linux for clusters
- From: Joseph Han <jhh3851^yahoo.com>
- Subject: CCL: best Linux for clusters
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:21:52 -0700 (PDT)
I have not been too satisfied with the release schedule of CentOS
of late. Also, there seem to have been some release process issues that
give me concern about using CentOS 6.x.
We'll likely move over to Scientific Linux for the 6.x branch as it's close
enough to CentOS/RHEL plus it has the added benefit of being used widely for
scientific computing.
For some ISV codes, we sometimes have to edit /etc/redhat-release, but usually
that's it.
Joseph
--- On Fri, 10/28/11, Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) E venabler()nhlbi.nih.gov
<owner-chemistry/./ccl.net> wrote:
> From: Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) E venabler()nhlbi.nih.gov
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Subject: CCL: best Linux for clusters
To: "Han, Joseph " <jhh3851/./yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, October 28, 2011, 12:02 PM
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
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style="font: inherit;"><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="arial" size="2">I have not been
too satisfied with the release schedule of CentOS of late.
Also, there seem to have been some release process issues that give me
concern about using CentOS 6.x. </font><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"
size="2"><br></font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"
size="2">We'll likely move over to Scientific Linux for the 6.x
branch as it's close enough to CentOS/RHEL plus it has the added benefit of
being used widely for scientific
computing.</font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"
size="2"><br></font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"
size="2">For some ISV codes, we sometimes have to edit
/etc/redhat-release, but usually that's it.
</font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"
size="2"><br></font></div><div><font
class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"
size="2">Joseph</font></div><div><font
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"><br>From: Venable, Richard (NIH/NHLBI) E venabler()nhlbi.nih.gov
<owner-chemistry/./ccl.net><br>Subject: CCL: best Linux for
clusters<br>To: "Han, Joseph "
<jhh3851/./yahoo.com><br>Date: Friday, October 28, 2011,
12:02 PM<br><br><div
class="plainMail"><br>Sent to CCL by: "Venable, Richard
(NIH/NHLBI) [E]" [venabler#%#nhlbi.nih.gov]<br><br>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).<br><br>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.<br><br>Thank
you.<br><br>--<br>Rick Venable
5635 FL/T906<br>Membrane Biophysics
Section<br>NIH/NHLBI Lab. of Computational Biology<br>Bethesda,
MD 20892-9314 U.S.A.<br>(301)
496-1905 venabler AT
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