On 2/3/20 12:31 PM, David Mathog wrote:
On 2020-02-02 19:25, beowulf-requ...@beowulf.org wrote:
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 22:21:09 -0500, you wrote:
>Should I consider Solaris or illumos?
Unless you are absolutely sure the software you want to run works on
Solaris, using Solaris/Illumos is likely asking for trouble.
I'm testing FreeBSD right now and will test *SunOS before commiting a
full
deployment.
Stop wasting time on that - support for OS's other than linux for
academically maintained scientific software is spotty at best. The
only one that even comes close is OS X, because a lot of academics
have Macs, but it would be super expensive to build a cluster out of
those. Moreover, many developers, in biology at least, have pretty
much given up on portability and focus on providing docker images. In
those cases you may find that building from source (needed for maximum
performance) on even common variants like CentOS can be difficult.
I have to agree with this. Linux won the HPC operating system war years ago.
--
Prentice
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