Hi, I'm surprised by the so negative feeling against CentOS which is a great project too and has been working well since it was "acquired" by Red Hat. I see no official sign that it should change. Moving from SL to CentOS is straightforward, I don't think you can speak about it as a migration as it is exactly the same product. And staying with CentOS will give you a chance to meet the DUNE people at some point and more generally the HEP community if you liked interacting with it! Cheers, Michel Le 21/02/2020 à 16:32, Peter Willis a écrit : > > Hello, > > > Thanks to everyone for clarifying the future status of SL. > > I guess it’s time to start researching he docs for Ubuntu/Debian or > something. > > Looks like we need to revise our computing cluster plan. > > The computer here is pretty small with only two nodes and a controller > totalling 112 CPUs. > > We use it for numerical modelling of ocean and river currents and > sediment transport (OpenMP/MPICH/FORTRAN). > > The changeover will be pretty small. We are still waiting for the OK > for a new node or two. > > The current nodes are ten years old. The update to a controller and > SL7 was a last ditch effort to join the two nodes and increase the > scale of the models without costing too much more. > > In other news, the link you shared has an article about ‘DUNE’ which > seems like an interesting project. > > I’d certainly frostbite a few toes to just stand around and watch that > thing run experiments. > > Thanks for the info, > > Peter > > >Hello Peter, > > > > > >> Is Scientific Linux still active? > > >Scientific Linux 6 and 7 will be supported until they are EOL, but > there will be no SL8. > > > > > >Here is the official announcement from last April: > > > > > >https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1904&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS&P=817 > > > > > >Bonnie King >