Hi, On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:40:59 +0800 Franklin Wang wrote: > I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you tell me > the experience about them? Thanks.
We have successful experience with Gentoo on both production servers (someone call this area "enterprise", though I dislike such name) and HPC setups. In short, Procs: - fine-tuned setups; - really large choice of components; - high-performance setups (especially rocks for HPC); - reduced attack surface; - nontrivial attack surface; - large system updates easy (comparted to e.g. RHEL4 -> RHEL5 migration); - easier to add and maintain out-of-tree software. Cons: - much longer time for initial setup; - harder to apply routine updates; - poorly suitable for tasks like: "create me this new service ASAP (for which you don't have prepared images), preferably yesterday". Other notes: - requires more qualified personnel to maintain. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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