Rugged individuaiist? I like that... Me puts on plaid shirt and goes to wrestle with some bears,,,
> Maybe it is time for an HPC Linux distro, this is where Good move. I would say a lightweight distro that does not do much nd is rebooted every time a job finishes. Wonder what security types would think of that.... Sidelining the discussion a bit I have been involved with projects where security types insist on the entire stack for firmware upwards is kept up to date. This feeds into the Redha debate of course - if we go Debian how do you satisfy corporate types? i guess ubuntu has a role here. On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 22:14, Douglas Eadline <deadl...@eadline.org> wrote: > > > A while ago, as a consultant, I managed an HPC cluster. > The client was paying for RH licenses every year. (actually > more than they were paying me). I asked them once "how often to you > call RH with issues?" Their reply, "We don't, we call you > because you understand HPC stuff." > > And of course, from the HW vendor, "you can't use that > IB driver version because it has not been qualified to > run on the hardware ... we only support RHEL version ..." > > In my experience, RH has never brought much value HPC. > I'm not blaming or shamming, it is just not their thing. > I'm just not sure you will get much help calling support > with and opensm issue or new IB driver. > > And as we all know, HPC has always been the home of > the "rugged individualists" (or "stubborn assholes" > not sure which) that do their own thing > to make things work. It is the nature of the HPC game. > > Maybe it is time for an HPC Linux distro, this is where > Scientific Linux seemed to be headed, but then was stopped because > CentOS worked just as well. And Red Hat's latest move would have > killed it in any case. > > This is a much longer discussion, but now I have to go > step on garden rakes while figuring out how to get some > small Java package to build with Gradle (don't ask). > > -- > Doug > > > > > > > We're all ears... > > > > > > Bill > > > > On 6/26/23 3:00 PM, Douglas Eadline wrote: > >> > >> I'll have more to say later and to me the irony of this situation is > >> Red Hat has become what they were created to prevent*. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Doug > >> > >> * per conversations with Bob Young back in the day > > We're all ears... > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > > > -- > Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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