On Wed 06/25/14 05:29PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > RHEL doesn't cut it for these people: they know that they want later > GCC / different commercial compilers / hand written assembly
Any OS flavor will allow for all of these, including RHEL. I'm not sure how RHEL prevents any of this. >- a later kernel with a smarter scheduler ... I'd really like to be sold on the latest 3.x kernel scheduler, but I am not sure that it would provide a significant performance improvement for a loaded compute node. > At this point, you might as well get your local team to support Debian > on this - and you will have all the extra packages that Debian may > provide over RHEL :) I like having a local team. But I like backing them up, too. When they hit a weird hardware error or performance problem, they should be able to call an expert systems engineer that has the aggregate experience from many deployments. Cheers, -- Gavin W. Burris Senior Project Leader for Research Computing The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ 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
