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Building a High-Performance Cluster with GentooBuilding a High-Performance Cluster with GentooPosted Apr 10, 2007 23:14 UTC (Tue) by maks (subscriber, #32426)In reply to: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo by dberkholz Parent article: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo
loosing time building boxes is the least thing you want to do while number crunching. that article needs to be shot. pure propaganda bull shit.
on my experience almost any scientific cluster from germany, us or cern runs either fedora or an old red hat.
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Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo Posted Apr 11, 2007 0:29 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] What I love about LWN is that we can have productive dialogs in the comments, but it's tough to do so with that kind of tone. Your suggested criticism was already addressed in the article. Search for the section containing "binary package server".
Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:54 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] It's not as if what was so disparaged by maks was impossible even in the*absence* of the binary package server. rsync works anywhere, after all, and you can rsync your speed-critical stuff around easily (at least you can if it's an even slightly competently written distributed app).
Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo Posted Apr 11, 2007 9:31 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link] Pretty much everyone in particle physics (i.e. CERN et al) run ScientificLinux, or RHEL, in a mixture of versions 3 and 4. Also, the reason people are wary of upgrades is not that the packaging system isn't up to it (we wouldn't 'upgrade' cluster machines anyway - it would always be a nuke and re-kickstart) it's because (some of) the apps that run on top of the system are insanely fragile.
Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo Posted Apr 22, 2007 16:53 UTC (Sun) by emj (guest, #14307) [Link] (some of) the apps that run on top of the system are insanely fragile.Yes, I know at least one Fortran compiler that uses "get_moon_ray_ratio()" when compiling stuff.
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