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. Probably less so now, but most of our
tooling is still based around SL so there hasn't been a big impetus to
change. Plus the stability of the longer RHEL life cycle has been a big
plus for stable clusters (*).

On non-cluster nodes we have a mixture of some other OS's.

We're very thankful for all of the work the SL team has put in over the
years!

And to everyone on this list who has been so generous with their time.

In terms of the future, we're mainly focussed on CentOS 8 as it should be
most similar to our current deployment tools, and since that's where CERN
etc are going it seems like a good option. No doubt there will be teeting
pains, but life has to be interesting, right. :)

Paddy

(*) although more recently some people are asking more and more for the
latest and greatest.. yes, we're looking at you ML and AI! :)

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 06:09:27AM -0800, Peter Willis wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> The variation in uses of t Scientific Linux is quite interesting.
> As mentioned before, we are using it for fluid dynamics modelling and oceanography, in the context of parallel computing with OpenMP and MPICH.
>  
> I am curious to see what everyone else have been using it for.
>  
> Perhaps, if it’s not too much trouble, people on the list might give a short blurb about how they use it and why.
> Maybe also mention others they know who are using it who are not on this list.
>  
> Peter
>  
>  
>  
> >I'm no scientist, just an electronics guy who do a lot of research in RF (as hobby, mostly testing antennas for ham radio in VHF bands) from Argentina.
> > 
> >Fot SL the most "well done" linux distribution, for people who simply knows.
> > 
> >Will look forward to move to another distribution.
> > 
> > 
> >>I'm an independent electronics inventor, heavily dependent
> >>on both competent software and competent laboratory science,
> >>both for the knowledge I depend on and the tools I use to
> >>transform that knowledge into products and services for
> >>my customers.  
> >>

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Research IT / Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing,
Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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