Fwd: [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