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

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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,

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>> Is Scientific Linux still active?

>Scientific Linux 6 and 7 will be supported until they are EOL, but there will be no SL8.

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>Here is the official announcement from last April:

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>https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1904&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS&P=817

> 

>Bonnie King