Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:29 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: for (BS) Big Science, imho. BS needs all resources solving and supporting a single problem, with as low of latency as possible. What kind of latency are you expecting to get

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-22 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: Don't get me wrong - I appreciate the desire for bare-metal performance in the high-performance computing world. I've heard stories/rumors of Gentoo getting attention elsewhere in this domain, and we have a disproportionate number of physical

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-21 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: for (BS) Big Science, imho. BS needs all resources solving and supporting a single problem, with as low of latency as possible. What kind of latency are you expecting to get with Gentoo running on CoreOS? A process inside a container is no

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-21 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: Blueness is a wonderful and collegial type of dev and is currently seeking input on his 'alpha' ideas:: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng_GRS His work is progressing and there are (3) major versions just posted to gentoo-dev. So this is

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-21 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: Besides, if I want to deploy 50 systems for a cluster, one at a time in parallel what do you recommend? via handbook? The modern diversity of hardware options has rendered the gentoo handbook, dysfunctional, at best, imho. ymmv. I have mixed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:28 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: You are right and you are wrong:: Openstack nor CoreOS are the best approach for (BS) Big Science, imho. BS needs all resources solving and supporting a single problem, with as low of latency as possible. What kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:39 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: Besides, if I want to deploy 50 systems for a cluster, one at a time in parallel what do you recommend? via handbook? The modern diversity of hardware options has rendered the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-18 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: James wrote: What I really would appreciate is some feedback on the Planning Questions listed below, as to help folks organized their thoughts and hardware details BEFORE actually performing an install or test-drive. Many/most of these

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread James
Jeremi Piotrowski jeremi.piotrowski at gmail.com writes: Planning questions are an OK-ish idea, but I surely wouldn't link to derivative distributions to answer them. We have appropriate wiki pages for all options, those that are insufficient should be improved. These could be linked to so

[gentoo-user] Re: Install PreQualifying Matrix

2015-08-17 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: James wrote: What I really would appreciate is some feedback on the Planning Questions listed below, as to help folks organized their thoughts and hardware details BEFORE actually performing an install or test-drive. Many/most of these options