[Beowulf] CentOS 7.x for cluster nodes ?

[Lachlan Musicman]

We use Centos 7.2 exclusively in our cluster (SLURM, 12 Nodes going up to
40 in the new year) and it works a treat. Same set up as you, but with some
shared NFS mounts. Systemd is fine - a few more keystrokes, but not the end
of the world.

Very happy

cheers
L.

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On 30 December 2016 at 17:12, Andrew Mather <mathera at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Hope you're having/had time to relax and unwind with those near and dear.
>
> We are in the very early planning stages for our next cluster and I'm
> currently looking at the OS.  We're a CentOS shop and planning to stay that
> way for the forseeable future, so please, no partisan OS wars :)
>
> When v7 of the Redhat-based OS' appeared, the change to systemd in
> particular, seemed to attract a lot of hate, but since it's been out a
> while, there doesn't seem to be as much.
>
> So, has anyone got recent war-stories, good experiences etc to share about
> v7 of CentOS specifically as the OS for cluster nodes.
>
> We don't have infiniband interconnects and don't use MPI, shared memory
> and the like.  All our jobs stay within the confines of the nodes and we
> have a variety of hardware configurations to accommodate different types of
> job (RAM, disk requirements etc)
>
> I'd welcome any info.
>
> Thanks and hope 2017 is kind for you.
>
> Andrew
>
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