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<div class="im"> </div>Maybe also some licensing breaks on large volume licensing. Red Hat is<br>primarily a sales and service organisation that also produces a Linux<br>by-product :) The HPC variant is targetted at areas which deal in large<br>
clusters at cheaper than Red Hat Enterprise Linux for servers at<br>equivalent volume, IIRC.<br></blockquote>
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<div>AFAICT the HPC version is more expensive but you get extra tools for that such as benchmarks, pre-compiled mpi, batch-scheduler from Platform.</div>
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<div>But MPI is easy to intall and I would prefer other batch-schedulers instead of the one of Platform so ... I wonder if the kernel/distribution itself is more optimised ?</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Since you have up to date hardware - also check on the necessary version<br>of 3Ware drivers and where they are supported. The command line<br>
utilities are particularly useful.<br></blockquote>
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<div>thanks for the tip.</div>
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<div class="im"><br> </div>You get ext3 or Red Hat's cluster filesystem ?? GFS ??, I think. No xfs<br>/ Reiser by default. Check also with HP as to what file systems they<br>would recommend.<br></blockquote>
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<div>No, we'll be using local file systems primarily and also a connection to a SAN but no global filesystem.</div>
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