On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 06:27 -0800, Siavoush Dastmalchi wrote: > Dear list, > > I will appreciate it if I can get your expert opinion on doing > parallel computation (I will use GROMACS and AMBER molecular mechanics > packages and some other programs like CYANA and CNS to do structure > calculations based on NMR experimental data) using a cluster based on > Dell PowerEdge M710 with Intel Xeon 5667 processor architecture > which apparently each blade has two quad-core cpus. I was wondering if > I can get some information about LINUX compatibility and parallel > computation on this system. ---- Your questions would probably be better answered at the Dell maintained Linux PowerEdge mailing list... https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge but generally all the PowerEdge servers are intended to run Linux but you should probably be careful with some of the RAID controllers because some of them (notably the S100 & S300) are not true hardware RAID and are not well supported by Linux software. Also, it should be noted that Dell PowerEdge servers are tested for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (aka RHEL) and a distribution like Fedora is not tested, though it usually works. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
