But if you have users who always want to use the latest and greatest tools (gcc, gsl, etc), then you may want to lean towards Fedora.
or compile them yourself. if you really care about them, you probably want to anyway. significant updates don't happen _that_ frequently, though this is obviously less viable for a one-man-cluster than a center with several admins.
I think fedora could be made to work OK in a cluster, despite its update rate. it would do so easier on a cluster which had lots of short jobs. (our clusters frequently have multi-week jobs, so we tend to update system stuff less frequently, and centos/rh and derived systems like xc work well.) I think centos+site-updates is a good model. if nothing else, users may not want updates/disruptions as fast as fedora's comes. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
