Re: RedHat or Debian amd64

>
> Really the only difference between distributions is their packaging
> system, their support infrastructure, their release schedule/policy, and
> how up to date the software is and what software they offer packages for.


Thanks.
Now my project at the Italian supercomputer center is going to production.
I had no problems with RedHat as far as number crunching is concerned. Now,
however, I need to access their Remote Visualization service to deal - also
on the X server - with large files. To this end, I need to download
software compatible with Debian amd64. The variety of graphic and
non-graphic tools that I use is very large. Their 64 bit Linux list
(lacking any GNU Linux  for either 64 or 32 bit)

RCM_darwin
RCM ubuntu 12.04
RCM RHL 5.6
RCM openSUSE 11.4 and 12.2

I would appreciate advice as to which RCM will likely work for me. I heard
about ubuntu but, to avoid being flooded by messages, i put it in the spam.
The advice I can even from the center is very limited as they don't know
what I have.

Thanks
francesco pietra


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 06:11:31PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > Hi Lennart:
> > I forgot that what is found on supercomputers might result also from what
> > you say.
> >
> > I found it problematic to compile a code for molecular dynamics (MD)
> > inclusive of an elaborate plugin. Better, I succeeded when only the
> > simplest part of the plugin was implemented, getting a valid MD
> executable.
> > In contrast, implementing the whole plugin resulted in a MD executable
> that
> > fails to recognize the GTX-680cards of my machine. Calls to the forum for
> > both the MD code and the plugin had ho answer. Those of the MD code do
> not
> > like the plugin (as they have the simplest part of it already hard coded
> > their own way), while those of the plugin do not know that MD code, they
> > use another one.
> >
> > Then, I heard that at the supercomputer center of my country (where I
> > should run the project, but I need to go there with a system that "runs")
> > even GPU machines run that full plugin. Before asking them how they
> > succeeded, I was wondering about the different Linux OSs. I am now
> curious
> > about their answer, if any.
>
> Really the only difference between distributions is their packaging
> system, their support infastructure, their release schedule/policy, and
> how up to date the software is and what software they offer packages for.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>