On 06/25/2014 12:18 PM, Gavin W. Burris wrote:
In my experience, Red Hat is often the first, if not the only, supported
OS for a commercial Linux application. This is due to the
This hasn't been true, as far as I know, ever (first and/or only).
We've had seen hard requirements by commercial/closed source apps* for
SLES $RandomVersion
Fedora $RandomVersion
Old/Ancient versions of RHEL including RHEL 3.x-5.x
Ubuntu 8.x/10.x
Usually with incompatible mixes of
HPMPI (built with a hard wired/broken IB stack)
MPICH/MVAPICH (very specific versions)
Intel MKL (very specific versions)
PGI compiler + libs
...
I don't want to name/shame offenders (some of them read this list and
are at least aware of the issues).
This is getting better over time, as internal development processes
improve. But hard coding to a particular platform results in hard
choices at cluster build time if you want to deploy a fixed image.
Happily, as noted, kvm and Docker have effectively obviated the need to
worry about this.
* engineering, comp chem, financial, ... etc.
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