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Ask Slashdot: Best Linux Distro For Computational Cluster?

Posted by timothy on from the what-will-you-be-computationalizing? dept.

DrKnark writes "I am not an IT professional, even so I am one of the more knowledgeable in such matters at my department. We are now planning to build a new cluster (smallish, ~128 cores). The old cluster (built before my time) used Redhat Fedora, and this is also used in the larger centralized clusters around here. As such, most people here have some experience using that. My question is, are there better choices? Why are they better? What would be recommended if we need it to fairly user friendly? It has to have an X-windows server since we use that remotely from our Windows (yeah, yeah, I know) workstations."

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  1. Which editor should he use? by Albanach · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now we have such a clear winner on the choice of distro, perhaps we can discuss which would be the best editor on the cluster?

    1. Re:Which editor should he use? by ebuck · · Score: 4, Funny

      vi

      Clearly the best choice. It is so heavily optimized that even its name takes up only 40% of the required character of the second best contender, emacs.

  2. Re:RHEL by Have+Brain+Will+Rent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just for a moment there I saw 5500 students/programmers/supportfolk/etc. all sitting in little cubicals slaving away at some problem after having had "Scientific Linux", aka the whip, "used" on them....

    Then I finished parsing the sentence.

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    The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny - Aesop