We use Centos 7.2 exclusively in our cluster (SLURM, 12 Nodes going up to 40 in the new year) and it works a treat. Same set up as you, but with some shared NFS mounts. Systemd is fine - a few more keystrokes, but not the end of the world.
Very happy cheers L. ------ The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." - Grace Hopper On 30 December 2016 at 17:12, Andrew Mather <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Hope you're having/had time to relax and unwind with those near and dear. > > We are in the very early planning stages for our next cluster and I'm > currently looking at the OS. We're a CentOS shop and planning to stay that > way for the forseeable future, so please, no partisan OS wars :) > > When v7 of the Redhat-based OS' appeared, the change to systemd in > particular, seemed to attract a lot of hate, but since it's been out a > while, there doesn't seem to be as much. > > So, has anyone got recent war-stories, good experiences etc to share about > v7 of CentOS specifically as the OS for cluster nodes. > > We don't have infiniband interconnects and don't use MPI, shared memory > and the like. All our jobs stay within the confines of the nodes and we > have a variety of hardware configurations to accommodate different types of > job (RAM, disk requirements etc) > > I'd welcome any info. > > Thanks and hope 2017 is kind for you. > > Andrew > > > -- > - > https://picasaweb.google.com/107747436224613508618 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > "Voting is a lot like going to Bunnings really: > You walk in confused, you stand in line, you have a sausage on the way out and > at the end, you wind up with a bunch of useless tools" > Joe Rios > - > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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