[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Saturday 03 October 2009, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > Sounds a reasonable theory. the service processor being x86 and
> > all.  ;) I guess I'm just wondering why they didn't use Gentoo on
> > the service processor too.
> 
> I would venture to suggest that it is for market acceptance reasons. 

Yes. More people are comfortable with a RHEL x86 box than Gentoo.

>  To me, the question is why did they mention Gentoo at all?  I

They prided themselves on nearly all of their software being open-
source, from Gentoo to using slurm to do job scheduling.  In general, it 
works pretty well.

> I could be wrong, but I haven't really
>  heard of anyone rolling a distro from scratch, even though some
>  people incredibly customize their in house distribution.

Of course not. It's a lot of work for not much gain.

Pat
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