Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 08:03:36AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: > Stuart Barkley writes: > > > I think some places are moving to Ubuntu. The thought is that Ubuntu > > keeps more up to date with software. I preferred to keep the OS > > minimal and build the user software independently since ther

Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-14 Thread Loris Bennett
Stuart Barkley writes: > I think some places are moving to Ubuntu. The thought is that Ubuntu > keeps more up to date with software. I preferred to keep the OS > minimal and build the user software independently since there usually > were complex dependencies and Debian should be fine in that c

Re: Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-08 Thread Stuart Barkley
I think some places are moving to Ubuntu. The thought is that Ubuntu keeps more up to date with software. I preferred to keep the OS minimal and build the user software independently since there usually were complex dependencies and Debian should be fine in that case. We used diskless servers

Re: Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Michael: This discussion has also been taking place periodically in the main Beowulf lists over at Beowulf.org (https://www.beowulf.org) See, for example, their archives from May-November 2023 for the thread. For anyone interested in HPC, I commend the Beowulf list - very small numbers of extreme

Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 5 Jan 2024 13:30 +0100, from loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de (Loris Bennett): > Is anyone aware of Debian being used on largish, say 100s of nodes and > 1000s of cores, clusters for High-Performance Computing (HPC)? https://lists.debian.org/debian-hpc/ might be a better place for this type of questi

Debian in HPC

2024-01-05 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, Is anyone aware of Debian being used on largish, say 100s of nodes and 1000s of cores, clusters for High-Performance Computing (HPC)? I ask because CentOS, which has been used widely in HPC, has been essentially killed off by IBM. Alternative Red-Hat-like OSs, such as Rocky and ALMA have app