Andy,
Debian is a possibility. I know that my friends in the UK and throughout
Europe like it.
We have been running CentOS for our current lifecycle of Opteron
machines. It is a trivial job to get most of the scientific software
that we run operational (including several commercial packages which
shall remain unamed). It does a good job on the hardware. We have an
install time of less than 30 minutes per node.It is supported for at
least one machine life cycle. In short, it works for our purposes.
But, I'm open to change as long as that change brings improvement.
Mike
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:01:58PM -0500, Mike Davis wrote:
Joe is right about the stability factor.
Stability, stability, stability.
Mike Davis
Debian: released every 18 months - two years. Guaranteed to support
previous version for a year after release. Seamless upgrade path - well,
nearly :)
17,740 packages in Debian main. Pure 64 bit distribution. Some
Beowulf-type software already packed. Runs out of the box on
Alpha/Sun/AMD64 (and will deal with legacy 32 bit hardware
identically so that you can have the same app. on cluster and desktops
if you really must.)
Supported by (at least) HP (and IBM if you ask them) on their hardware.
Licence cost $0, annual Linux vendor support fee cost $0. Network
updates readily available from more than one mirror site per country
where feasible.
What's not to like ? :)
This very quickly, as I must get dressed for work. I'd like to come back
to this point in more detail later.
Andy
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