CCL:G: Operating system and a workload manager

[Herbert Fruchtl <herbert.fruchtl[A]st-andrews.ac.uk>]

 Sent to CCL by: Herbert Fruchtl [herbert.fruchtl^^st-andrews.ac.uk]
If you want a reasonable cluster setup with built-in queueing system
 (I
 assume that's what you mean with workload manager), I'd go with ROCKS,
 including the SGE roll. Making changes to the standard setup has a bit
 of a learning curve (all the RedHat/CentOS tools are there, but you
 can't use them), but the standard setup is OK for 90% of use cases in a
 smallish group.
 HTH,
   Herbert
 On 31/12/2013 18:03, Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim m.ibrahim() compchem.net wrote:
>  Sent to CCL by: "Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim" [m.ibrahim^compchem.net]
>  Dear Colleagues
>  Hope my email finds you well and happy new year.
>  Regarding our previous email about workstation/cluster, we have made our mind
>  to purchase a dell cluster with a specific configuration based on our budget.
>  For now, we were wondering which FREE operating system would you recommend? as
>  well which FREE workload manager would you recommend?
>  We are planning to run Gaussian and AMBER software at the current time.
>  Thanks in advance.
>  Sincerely;
>  M. Ibrahim
>  P.S. we would like to thank all those responded directly to our personal email
>  on our previous email.>