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Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

Posted Apr 11, 2007 9:31 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
In reply to: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo by maks
Parent article: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

Pretty much everyone in particle physics (i.e. CERN et al) run Scientific
Linux, 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.

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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.