[Bioclusters] how are the Redhat product changes affecting existing and future plans?

[Glen Otero]

On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 08:44  AM, Joe Landman wrote:

> Cluster OSes range from pre-packaged/pre-bundled to roll-your-own.  
> The roll-your-own crowd will continue to roll their own if they have 
> the time/inclination.  Commercial and production sites tend to prefer 
> the packaged ("who can we call for support") variety due to the 
> inherent risks in one-off type distributions.
>
> So I see several possible directions on the pre-packaged side:
>
> 1) Open source cluster OS distros
> 2) Customized "Consumer" distros
> 3) Commercial distros
>
> On the open source distro side, we have ROCKS going to RHEL 3 
> recompiled without RedHat logos.  Not sure about support for this, but 
> Glen Otero of Callident might be able to talk about commercial support 
> of this.

Rocks is released by an academic institution, so they have a license to 
redistribute packages with the Red Hat logos. As far as I know, they 
aren't bothering to remove any trademarks and logos.

Callident supports Rocks clusters. However, we have a *little* more 
faith in Callident's own Rx and BioBrew 
(http://bioinformatics.org/ftp/biobrew) cluster distributions, which 
are based on Rocks and contain several additions and improvements. 
v.1.0 of Rx and BioBrew are scheduled for release in two weeks at 
Supercomputing 2003. More info on the release and demos as we get 
closer to the release date. We're working on some stunt biocomputing 
for the show ; )

Glen

Glen Otero, Ph.D.
Linux Prophet