My IBM e325 came with Redhat AS. My Sun v20z came with nothing, but Sun will be sending me both SuSE and Redhat to be installed on them. LAI Loong-Fong Bioinformatics Institute Singapore On 6/3/04 12:39 AM, "Chris Dagdigian" <dag@sonsorol.org> wrote: > > The opteron mention brings up another question I wanted to ask this list-- > > What Linux distributions are people using for Opteron based machines? > > I have a pair of IBM e325 opteron servers in the lab/office and > initially have been using Suse 9.0 on them mainly because I know that > IBM and Suse are tight and I figured that it would be the safe choice > since I'm still slightly worried about the somewhat new support for > > Suse 9 on Opteron has been great so far. I'm going to start > experimenting with Tao Linux (www.taolinux.org) which is a 'generic' > form of RH Enterprise Linux built from source rpm files next. > > After Tao I want to try Fedora, Fedora-legacy and the actual Redhat > branded AS or ES products. Anything else I should try? any > recommendations from people using opterons in production settings? > > -Chris > > > > > Arnie Miles wrote: > >> Has anyone considered Opterons? Our preliminary investigations indicate >> that the Opterons have a considerably better bang/buck ratio then >> anything else out there right now, particularly Xeon, even in 32 bit >> configuration. We're getting dual processor Opterons in the under $3k >> price range. >> >> I'm anxious to try out my first G5 cluster one day, hopefully soon, but >> the Opteron path makes more applications available to me. >> >> Arnie Miles >> Advanced Research Computing >> Georgetown University >> >> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 10:53, Michael Chute wrote: >> >>> For my two cents I would have to disagree with the Xeon approach. A >>> cluster of Xserves is probley going to give you more speed and storage >>> for the buck than a Xeon machine. We have a small cluster of Xserves >>> running osX server and we find that it is very fast, and the new g5 >>> slusters are even faster. Another alternative that has been done in >>> the past is to actually run Linux on Xserves. I don't know the details >>> of this but I do know that this has been done. If you look at the >>> bioteam software as well there are over 200 bioinformatics tools >>> included with the package and they all have a gui interface which is >>> very nice for the average user. As far as management features you >>> can't beat osx server. Everything is so easy to do you don't need a >>> bunch of IT people to do it for you. I am a microbiologist and I admin >>> our cluster. I think the "most tools for bioinformatics under linux" >>> is not exactly true. I don't think you will find much trouble finding >>> an osx port for most of the tools. FYI there is going to be a webcast >>> about the Xserve cluster for use in bioinformatics next thursday, you >>> might want to watch, you might get some of your questions answered. >>> >>> http://education.apple.com/webcast/workgroupcluster/ >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> Michael D. Chute >>> BSL-3 Lab Manager >>> Naval Medical Research Center >>> Biological Defense Research Directorate >>> Suite 1N29 >>> 503 Robert Grant Ave >>> Silver Spring, MD 20910 >>> Voice: 301-319-7529 >>> Fax: 301-319-7513 >>> On Mar 5, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Tim Cutts wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 5 Mar 2004, at 15:32, Christopher Porter wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> We're in the market for a cluster; most of our options are >>>>> Xeon/Linux, but one is a cluster of XServe G5s running OS X. We're >>>>> going to run some benchmarks to see how the performance compares, but >>>>> some in of our group have expressed concern that 'the vast majority >>>>> bioinformatics software is developed on Linux', and 'there may be a >>>>> long time lag before new software is available on OS X'. >>>> >>>> Most stuff compiles quite cleanly. You could get bitten though with >>>> anything that builds shared libraries. OS X dylib bundles are *very* >>>> different from normal UNIX shared objects. Have a look at the >>>> O'Reilly book "MacOS X for Unix Geeks" which is very small, but covers >>>> some of this stuff. >>>> >>>> There are various other gotchas as well, but I don't know about them >>>> in detail. >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have never had problems getting software I need to run on OS X, but >>>>> I wondered if anyone can provide me with examples of applications >>>>> that won't run on OS X, or are Linux only (only binaries released & >>>>> no source available). >>>> >>>> I suspect you'll get much more bang-per-buck with Xeon machines. >>>> You'll also probably get better management features, although how >>>> crucial that is rather depends on how large a cluster you want to get. >>>> >>>> Personally, although I love Macs, and have one as my day-to-day >>>> machine, I'm currently happier with Linux for the larger scale stuff. >>>> >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr Tim Cutts >>>> Informatics Systems Group >>>> Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute >>>> Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org >>>> https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org >>> https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters >> >> ================== >> Arnie Miles >> Systems Administrator, Advanced Research Computing (ARC) >> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dept. >> Georgetown University >> 401 Reiss Science >> 37th and O Streets NW, >> Washington, DC 20057 >> 202-687-9379 >> >> http://www.georgetown.edu/users/adm35/ (Personal) >> http://www.clusters.arc.georgetown.edu/ (GUPPI Initiative) >> http://www.georgetown.edu/research/arc/ (Division) >> ================== >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org >> https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters