Re: Best OS version for Opteron cluster?

Phil Hobbs wrote:
> Well, hell may not have frozen over, but my purchase req for 5
> dual-Opteron pizza boxes with 20GB of memory got approved, and now I
> have to figure out what to do with them.
>
> I'm running a big FDTD electromagnetic simulation code I wrote myself,
> but at present it runs on Windows and OS/2, neither of which is terribly
> attractive on a 64-bit machine due to compiler issues, if nothing else.
> Accordingly I'm planning to use Linux, but you could fit my Linux
> expertise into a matchbox without taking the matches out first.
> Fortunately the code is all console mode, and I think I have the slight
> differences in the sockets API figured out--if not, it's not a big deal
> to fix.
>
> What distro is best for this kind of service? Any other experiences to
> share?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil Hobbs

Try gentoo. It is very 64-bit friendly. They even have a high performance computing cluster how-to

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/hpc-howto.xml

Good luck!

p
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