I've added some comments on LWN - but it may be a tough day for HPC. That
is the last market segement I can see that is tied to RPM as a "thing@
Actually, I think the opposite is true. HPC clusters are usually
walled-off computing environments, where *most* of the software being
run on them is developed in-house or otherwise compiled from
source-code. (I work in academia, where just about 100% of apps used are
open-source).
Large cluster upgrades are usually "forklift" upgrades, where a new
cluster usually means a completely new, separate computing environment
from the previous cluster.
I think these factors make HPC clusters an *easier* place to change
course than other computing environments.
--
Prentice
On 12/8/20 6:47 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 09:50:13PM +0000, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
Dear all,
what I never understood is: why are people not using Debian?
I don't know - I suggested it 20 years ago when rgb launched his Extreme Linux
and I use it daily - but not on HPC.
I've added some comments on LWN - but it may be a tough day for HPC. That
is the last market segement I can see that is tied to RPM as a "thing@
Andy
I done some cluster installation (up to 100 or so nodes) with Debian, more or
less out of the box, and I did not have any issue with it. I admit, I might
have missed out something I don't know about, the famous unkown-unkowns, but
by enlarge the clusters were running rock solid with no unusual problem.
I did not use Lustre or GPFS etc. on it, I only played around a bit with BeeFS
and some GlusterFS in a small scale.
Just wondering, as people mentioned Ubuntu.
All the best from a dark London
Jörg
Am Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2020, 21:12:02 GMT schrieb Christopher Samuel:
On 12/8/20 1:06 pm, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if this causes Scientific Linux to come back
into existence.
It sounds like Greg K is already talking about CentOS-NG (via the ACM
SIGHPC syspro Slack):
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gmkurtzer_centos-project-shifts-focus-to-cent
os-stream-activity-6742165208107761664-Ng4C
All the best,
Chris
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