Re: Feedback on talk about usage of Debian in HPC: (Was: If someone wants to join)
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 06:36:57AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Cordell,
>
> Am Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 04:23:38AM +0200 schrieb Cordell Bloor:
> > Thank you for the heads-up. Excellent presentation. I'm sure I will refer back to your list of HPC centres running Debian in the future.
>
> Thanks a lot for your feedback.
>
> > I agree that the lack of a go-to company for support causes some difficulty for Debian in the HPC space. It makes things tricky as compared to dealing with Canonical, Red Hat, etc. Perhaps a system integrator like HPE could over take that role, but I assume they would have done so already if they wanted to.
>
"Old" HP supported Debian on pretty much anything. Ask Bdale.
Given the Red Hat ecosystem splintering (and the imminent demise of
the last of CentOS apart from Streams), maybe large system vendors
might reconsider Debian. HPE have bought almost every supercomputer
vendor given that they bought Cray which had previously swallowed
other vendors - maybe some supercomputer customers might like
Debian. What do CERN do currently?
> I absolutely agree to both statements (tricky without some system
> integrator and if some integrator would be interested this would have
> happened).
>
> > On a related note, I find the Ubuntu Certified Hardware program quite interesting [1]. A formal certification program for Debian could help both with the user concerns about compatibility and with acquiring hardware for quality assurance. The feasibility of such a program is an open question.
>
> ACK, this might be interesting to have for Debian. We just need someone
> who wants to (realiably) do this.
>
Dell/Supermicro/HPE/Lenovo can all certify this for themselves on their
own hardware and that would make most sense.
Andy
[Who would dearly love Debian absolutely everywhere :) ]
> Kind regards
> Andreas.
>
> > [1]: https://ubuntu.com/certified
>
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