On 2/28/20 5:00 AM, Paddy Doyle wrote:
> We're a university HPC centre.
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> Plus the stability of the longer RHEL life cycle has been a big
> plus for stable clusters (*).
>
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>
> (*) although more recently some people are asking more and more for the
> latest and greatest.. yes,
We're a university HPC centre.
We've been using SL since at least SL4 (before that was before my time),
and currently mostly on SL7 with a few SL6 still dotted around on older
clusters.
Certainly in the past there was a requirement to have a RHEL-like OS for
certain core software packages.
