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Brady Catherman wrote: |
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> So the short of it is that higher is always better, and this is only a |
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> 'best as I personally' could do comparison. |
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OK, thanks for the clarification. Have you also run lmbench? |
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> After our conversion things went together much smoother and now |
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> maintenance is fairly painless. I spend all of my time setting up our |
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> Apple cluster (The Gentoo ppc64 performance just wasn't good enough to |
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> wow the management into using it =) |
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Yeah, from the numbers it looks as if it would be dependent on the |
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purpose of the cluster whether OS X or Gentoo would do better. On ppc, |
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Gentoo does poorly on the first two benchmarks and also on context |
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switching. On x86, the first two are more comparable with RH, but the |
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others, Gentoo has a small to large advantage over RH, just as on ppc. |
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> One big advantage of Gentoo is the ease in which new programs/libraries |
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> can be installed. I have written dozens of ebuilds for all the programs |
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> we use here in order to simplify installation and administration. |
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If they're redistributed programs, we would very much appreciate |
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contribition of the ebuilds. |
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> Now to install a new program I just have to build it on a node using: |
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> echo "emerge -b <program>" | qsub |
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> Then I install it on everything else using: |
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> emerge -K <program> ; pdsh -a emerge -K <program> |
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Got a pdsh ebuild? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |