Don,

Sorry - my dyslexic fingers mistyped Linux.

-Keith.

At 11:30 AM -0600 11/18/09, Don Holmgren wrote:
>Yes, J/Psi is running SL (SL4.x).
>
>Where are you seeing "Lunix"?  I'm looking now at the detailed
>entry and it says "Linux".
>
>Also, I just logged into the top500 submission site, and indeed
>I have J/Psi listed there as running Scientific Linux Fermi 4.4.
>So, perhaps this an issue of the reports that can be generated by
>the top500 site, and so it may not be possible to distinguish
>Linux flavors.
>
>I don't actually know of any other top500 machines that run SL.
>There may be some Centos machines, and there are many Fedora
>machines.  Most of the wealthier sites use RH or SuSE.  I think
>the os list (stats/list/34/os) looks pretty worthless - it surely
>is grouping all sorts of Linux into "Linux" (e.g., there's no
>way that RedHat is only on 9 systems and SuSE is only on 5).
>
>Don
>
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>On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Keith Chadwick wrote:
>
>>The J/PSI cluster at Fermilab is listed as running "Lunix",
>>and I believe that it is running Scientific Lunix.
>>
>>Don and/or Amitoj can comment further...
>>
>>-Keith.
>>
>>At 8:32 PM -0800 11/17/09, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>>>I'm at SC09 this week.  Awesome hardware, awesome people.  The
>>>Top500 for the month was announced, Linux runs on 446+ of them,
>>>no surprise there.
>>>
>>>What is a surprise is the nonappearance of Scientific Linux on
>>>this list:
>>>    http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/os
>>>
>>>I would assume SL would be running on many, if not most, of the
>>>big iron X86 array systems.  I would also assume more celebrity
>>>SL deployments means more funding for our heros at Fermi.  Is
>>>this a "don't ask, don't tell" thing?
>>>
>>>Keith
>>>
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