Timeline for Which Linux distribution is best for Matter Modeling?
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| Jun 11, 2020 at 7:38 | comment | added | Susi Lehtola | @NikeDattani I've never seen SuSE outside Germany... | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 23:05 | comment | added | Nike Dattani - No Free Time | "there are only two distributions that can be considered at earnest for general usage: Debian/Ubuntu, and Fedora/Red Hat" What about SUSE? The clusters (and all desktops!) I've used at a major Max Planck Institute in Germany, use it. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 13:02 | comment | added | Nike Dattani - No Free Time | The comment of taciteloquence says that we don't care so much about updating compilers, but I don't quite agree with that: most clusters (especially if used by a large population) do update compilers reasonably often. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 12:27 | comment | added | Susi Lehtola | @GeoffHutchison yes, before CentOS became available. And it's not just physicists, but most people who want to run calculations. If you set up a cluster, you don't want to update it biannually; instead, you want to set it up and run calculations for the cluster's lifetime. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 2:48 | comment | added | taciteloquence | Physicists are very conservative. We write code and want it to be stable for a long time, and care less about having the most up-to-date compilers. This is an advantage in some contexts, but obviously a disadvantage if you want to use the most recent version of a programming language. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 20:24 | comment | added | Geoff Hutchison | IIRC the origin of Scientific Linux was for a long-term supported stable distro for high-energy physics, correct? The main problem I've encountered with CentOS and SL are old versions of compilers. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 18:30 | history | answered | Susi Lehtola | CC BY-SA 4.0 |