Dear all,<br><br>As a Linux user I've worked with several distros as RedHat, SuSE, Debian and derivatives, and recently Gentoo.<br><br>Now I face the challenge of building a HPC for scientific calculations, and I wonder which distro would suit me best. As a Gentoo user, I've recognised the power of customisation, optimisation and lightweight system, for instance my 4 years old laptop flies like a youngster, and some desktops too. So I thought about building the HPC nodes (8+1 master) with Gentoo ....
<br><br>But then it comes the administration and maintenance burden, which for me it should be the less, since my main task here is research ... so browsing the net I found Rocks Linux with plenty of clustering docs and administration tools & guidelines. I feel this should be the choice in my case, even if I sacrifice some computation efficiency.
<br><br>Any advice on this will be appreciated.<br><br>Chetoo.<br>