> 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