After 7 years working at CERN on the GRID project for LHC, i would recommand scientific linux, the target of this distro is to run the largest GRID in the world gLite on a free redhat, you have also in the EPEL repository many tools for large scale computing maintain by the GRID team in CERN and Fermilab.
It is a remark unuseful. If you take the middleware i work on. I need 20 min to install 50 machines when other admins need 3 days to have 5 machines working correctly.
If your sysadmin know the system correctly the system few templates and pxe and the installation problem does not exist anymore.
I understand completely the usage of a very secure system in the business of Price Water House.
I am working on the group that work on the Grid behing the LHC. The name of this Grid is LCG.
A grid is: + connectionn between large cluster + distributed mass storage system + dynamic reallocation of the ressources + And lot of other services for transparent usage of ressource trough the world.
If you want precise url to get info read this:
LCG (itself) : http://cern.ch/lcg/
Eu Datagrid (European Grid Software use in LCG):
http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.
Globus Toolkit : http://globus.org/
If you need other info ask (i will try to follow).
PS : Cern create http protocol. Datagrid was long and hard to devellop, but the actual result is *good*.
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After 7 years working at CERN on the GRID project for LHC, i would recommand scientific linux, the target of this distro is to run the largest GRID in the world gLite on a free redhat, you have also in the EPEL repository many tools for large scale computing maintain by the GRID team in CERN and Fermilab.
It is a remark unuseful. If you take the middleware i work on.
I need 20 min to install 50 machines when other admins need 3 days to have 5 machines working correctly.
If your sysadmin know the system correctly the system few templates and pxe and the installation problem does not exist anymore.
I understand completely the usage of a very secure system in the business of Price Water House.
I am working on the group that work on the Grid behing the LHC. The name of this Grid is LCG.
:
: :
A grid is
+ connectionn between large cluster
+ distributed mass storage system
+ dynamic reallocation of the ressources
+ And lot of other services for transparent usage of ressource trough the world.
If you want precise url to get info read this
LCG (itself) : http://cern.ch/lcg/
Eu Datagrid (European Grid Software use in LCG)
http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.
Globus Toolkit : http://globus.org/
If you need other info ask (i will try to follow).
PS : Cern create http protocol.
Datagrid was long and hard to devellop, but the actual result is *good*.
http protocol was create at cern. For documentation problem over the network.