On 7/19/06, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok. FC as a distro is supposed to be experimental. Some releases of it are actually quite good. FC4 has been great on one of boxes (FC5 has been a disaster on the same box, which has followed a pattern we have observed of FXe being good, and FCo being garbage, where e is an even number, o being an odd number).
--snip-- Apologies, I should have given more background to the post. The software we use is centered around FC so switching to other distros is not really an option I want to consider. I put forward the questions because of the FC release cycles and just a general interest in what other people are doing! :) Some of the clusters I manage just run Condor and the users can make do with gcc, but one cluster in particular is split in terms of schedulers (Condor and PBS), hardware (ranging from duals to 8-way opterons), a few extra compilers. This coupled with some proprietary mechanism for management leaves me slightly concerned about upgrades. It's a lesson learned when buying new clusters!
Cluster upgrades are rare unless you are missing functionality or something is broken. That is of course one opinion, some here do upgrades nightly. From a purely production oriented viewpoint, where downtime == lost money for our customers, we usually advise against that.
Thanks for the reply! It's great to get insight into what other people use and recommend! Many thanks, -- Gerald Davies --------------------------------------------- w: http://www.geralddavies.com _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
