Mark Hahn wrote: >> I've seen Centos mentioned a lot in connection to HPC, am I making a >> mistake with Ubuntu?? > > distros differ mainly in their desktop decoration. for actually > getting cluster-type work done, the distro is as close to irrelevant > as imaginable. a matter of taste, really. it's not as if the distros > provide the critical components - they merely repackage the kernel, > libraries, middleware, utilities. wiring yourself to a distro does > affect when you can or have to upgrade your system, though. > > consider, for instance, that there's no reason for a compute node to > run whatever distro you choose for your login node. yes, you'd like > to keep some synchronization in libc and middleware libraries. but > you could configure a compute node with only the basics: kernel, shell, > minimal /sbin utilities, single rc script, sshd (in addition to the > probably few libraries needed by jobs - compiler runtimes, probably MPI, > probably acml/mkl) >
Thanks, that's exactly what I thought: the software components of a beowulf mentioned in rgb's book and on the net, are simply utilities that are used upon any linux distribution. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
