Greetings! We've been using Debian here for years with great success
and minimal hassle.
Some Debian clustering advantages:
1) Install once, smooth upgrades for the indefinite future. I think
we installed our cluster back in ~ 1995 or so, and have only
'apt-get upgrade'ed since, even with multiple hardware upgrades.
2) Enormous quantity of integrated parallel and numerical software.
3) Transparent cpu-specific optimized blas/lapack support available to
all packages without recompilation.
4) lam/mpich are setup as compile-time MPI alternatives, meaning that
code can be compiled against either with no changes at the
administrator's discretion.
Take care,
70uf33q Hu5541n <topa_007_at_[hidden]> writes:
> or.... Should I move to Debian. I hear many good
> reviews about Debian, but the problem is I never have
> had experience with deb.
>
> or...should I continue with the existing setup?
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> Toufeeq
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