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From: Brady Catherman <bradyc@××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-cluster@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:57:08
Message-Id: CBF30D24-B0F7-439E-BD9B-D74BC79019A3@uidaho.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-cluster] Gentoo vs RedHat cluster by Donnie Berkholz
1 pdsh: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81171
2
3 Fluctuate: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112771
4 Lamarc: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112773
5 Oommf: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114087
6 S3: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114088
7 FastDNA_ml: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114089
8 Migrate: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114090
9 PAML: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114092
10 Modeltest: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114093
11 Phrap: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114094
12 Seq-gen: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114095
13 RepeatMasker: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114096
14
15 (I got in trouble for this one.. I was lazy and posed a tar ball of
16 the 160 ebuilds instead of each one individually.)
17 Bioconductor (for the language R): http://bugs.gentoo.org/
18 show_bug.cgi?id=25710
19
20 On Apr 11, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
21
22 > Brady Catherman wrote:
23 >> So the short of it is that higher is always better, and this is
24 >> only a
25 >> 'best as I personally' could do comparison.
26 >
27 > OK, thanks for the clarification. Have you also run lmbench?
28 >
29 >> After our conversion things went together much smoother and now
30 >> maintenance is fairly painless. I spend all of my time setting up our
31 >> Apple cluster (The Gentoo ppc64 performance just wasn't good
32 >> enough to
33 >> wow the management into using it =)
34 >
35 > Yeah, from the numbers it looks as if it would be dependent on the
36 > purpose of the cluster whether OS X or Gentoo would do better. On ppc,
37 > Gentoo does poorly on the first two benchmarks and also on context
38 > switching. On x86, the first two are more comparable with RH, but the
39 > others, Gentoo has a small to large advantage over RH, just as on ppc.
40 >
41 >> One big advantage of Gentoo is the ease in which new programs/
42 >> libraries
43 >> can be installed. I have written dozens of ebuilds for all the
44 >> programs
45 >> we use here in order to simplify installation and administration.
46 >
47 > If they're redistributed programs, we would very much appreciate
48 > contribition of the ebuilds.
49 >
50 >> Now to install a new program I just have to build it on a node using:
51 >> echo "emerge -b <program>" | qsub
52 >>
53 >> Then I install it on everything else using:
54 >> emerge -K <program> ; pdsh -a emerge -K <program>
55 >
56 > Got a pdsh ebuild?
57 >
58 > Thanks,
59 > Donnie
60 >
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