On 19/05/16 20:44, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> The upgrade in Debian is working really well. You really can
> install a machine once and then you can upgrade it to the latest
> OS without much issues. [...]
Agreed, Debian is great for this (which is why we're running it on our
infrastructure box
On 19/05/2016, 20:51, "Beowulf on behalf of Andrew M.A. Cater"
wrote:
>On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 06:20:37AM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>> Good Morning,
>>
>> I am just wondering what distribution of choice would one use for their
>> cluster? Would one go for a source based distro like gento
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 06:20:37AM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> I am just wondering what distribution of choice would one use for their
> cluster? Would one go for a source based distro like gentoo or a
> precompiled one like Centos7?
>
I have argued for Debian in the pas
Dear Jonathan,
here at UCL we are running a number of different distros as it looks like.
I am using Debian for my clusters now for the last 5 years or so without any
problems. In fact, I have upgraded from Debain etch up to jessie, the latest,
over the time and I never had any real issues. Of
We tend to use very conservative operating systems here i.e. RHEL 6/7, since
these are *stable* and the drivers / libraries for e.g. IB, GPFS, … are
generally well supported
If you go to a source based distribution I would expect vendor support would be
lacking, and probably the maintenance (i.
Hi,
If you need certified things like drivers or whatever (IB...), choose
redhat-like.
Otherwise, IMHO debian-like is a betteer choice.
Gentoo could be use for development, or test purpose. I do not think it is
really a good choice.
Cheers.
Envoyé depuis mon appareil Samsung
Mes
