[Gllug] Don't like to boast but...

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 23:19 +0100, Adam Bower wrote:

> 
> I have heard of plenty of Debian clusters in the past, but all of them
> have been home grown rather than purchased. I'm guessing that if people
> are going the route of buying an expensive cluster that they will also
> want the warm fuzzys of having the OS running on the cluster supported
> by a vendor with large support contracts, and they see Debian as a 
> relatively (and incorrectly) unsupported system as it doesn't give out 
> the same warm fuzzies as a large vendor does.
Yes indeed.
Applications support also comes into it - most scientific/engineering 
applications are either:
(*) certified by ISVs to run on Redhat Enterprise/SLES
     in which case you can be confident that Scientific Linux/SuSE Pro
will be supported. 
(*) tested to run on Redhat/SuSE 

Clusters are bought to run codes.


Widening the debate a little, Mandrake did make big efforts a couple of
years ago with the Mandrake CLIC distribution, which was a cluster-
specific distro. This was funded by an EU grant, if I'm not wrong.
They commercialised it in another version.
I never saw it gain much traction - I may be wrong, and it could be
popular in France etc.

The other major clustering distro is Rocks, which is a toolkit overlaid
on a Redhat 'white box' distribution. 


 



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