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On 6/15/06, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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> I've just started up a list of clusters with >=32 cores using Gentoo [1] |
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> that I found using Google. It should show up on the web nodes in roughly |
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> an hour. If you have any to add to the list, or corrections or updates |
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> to it, please let me know. |
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We have the potential to run 256 Xserves (512 processors) with a multilib |
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Gentoo environment. I say potential because once we hear back from Moab |
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about creating overlapping standing reservations, the nodes will boot from |
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Darwin to Gentoo dependent upon user requests for their jobs. |
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Of course in all the tests we've run, Gentoo and Linux in general, |
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outperforms |
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Darwin, so I suspect that eventually all of our current users will be |
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converted. |
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We're just making sure we supply them with the ability to decide. |
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Our website reports we are using Debian, which is true for the ldap and NFS |
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servers. The (head)nodes are all running Gentoo/Darwin though. We haven't |
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gotten around to updating that yet, heh. |
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Thanks, |
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Justin Bronder |
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University of Maine |
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Advanced Computing Research Lab |
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www.clusters.umaine.edu |
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