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<div>I've been working on hpux-itanium for the last 2 years (and even unsubscribed to beowulf-ml during most of that time, my bad) but soon will turn back to a beowulf cluster (HP DL380G6's with Xeon X5560, amcc/3ware 9690SA-8i with 4 x 600GB Cheetah 15krpm). Now I have a few questions on the config. </div>
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<div>1) our company is standardised on RHEL 5.1. Would sticking with rhel 5.1 instead of going to the latest make a difference.</div>
<div>2) What are the advantages of the hpc version of rhel. I browsed the doc but unless having to compile mpi myself I do not see a difference or did I miss soth.</div>
<div>3) which filesystem is advisable knowing that we're calculating on large berkeley db databases</div>
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<div>thanks in advance,</div>
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<div>toon</div></font></div><br>