Yes. in theory, although whether it’s worthwhile presumably depends on whether
that RAM saving is significant. If you’re saving, say, 100MB on a 32 GB node,
that’s not a vast saving, especially if you’re taking a maths performance hit
with it. Might make an interesting experiment with some real-world code, I
suppose!
Tim
On 1 Feb 2021, at 14:46, Jonathan Aquilina
<jaquil...@eagleeyet.net<mailto:jaquil...@eagleeyet.net>> wrote:
Hi Tim,
I am asking from the non container side. If one wants to go bare metal wouldn’t
that lower ram footprint that alpine provides be advantageous so you can
maximize resource usage for what you want to crunch?
Regards,
Jonathan
From: Tim Cutts <t...@sanger.ac.uk<mailto:t...@sanger.ac.uk>>
Sent: 01 February 2021 15:43
To: Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net<mailto:jaquil...@eagleeyet.net>>
Cc: Beowulf <beowulf@beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] apline linux [EXT]
The only place I regularly encounter is in containers, so people who are
running singularity might find their users are using alpine in a way they can’t
easily see. Presumably the libm point Janne made applies in the container
context as well, since the application will presumably be using the container’s
libm, not the host node’s library.
Tim
On 30 Jan 2021, at 05:56, Jonathan Aquilina via Beowulf
<beowulf@beowulf.org<mailto:beowulf@beowulf.org>> wrote:
Hey guys,
Recently been giving alpine linux a try. I am super impressed on virtualized
version of it what a low ram footprint it has 60mb starting. What do you guys
think when it comes to alpine linux in the HPC space?
Regards,
Jonathan
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