<div>Also coreos <a href="http://coreos.com/">http://coreos.com/</a> in conjunction with packaged applciations from Docker.</div>
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<div>Should we be looking at deploying stripped-out go-faster OS instances to our compute nodes, and sending out the packaged applications for every job?</div>
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<div>Yes I know that most cluster types work on stripping back unneeded cruft from OS images - but the base is a general-purpose distro.</div>
<div>And to provoke some though, general purpose distros these days are increasingly desktop centric - more and more emphasis on the latest</div>
<div>Gnome or KDE fancy wobbly desktops. I may be wrong (as usual).</div>
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