Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo [LWN.net]

Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

Posted Apr 12, 2007 13:18 UTC (Thu) by pbardet (subscriber, #22762)
In reply to: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo by ajross
Parent article: Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

You forgot one thing. They love to spend a day (or more) finding why upgrading a package breaks everything. I guess that's the day saved over a week of intense computing.

It took me 2 years to setup a usable Gentoo box. Only 1/2 hour to break it and another 1/2h to switch to Ubuntu to get a similar system. Not better, not worse, but no more guesses.

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Building a High-Performance Cluster with Gentoo

Posted Apr 19, 2007 10:49 UTC (Thu) by TRauMa (guest, #16483) [Link]

Thanks for this very insightful comment that tells us a lot about managing clusters with gentoo.