<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">We are running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on our HPC without any problems so far.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">I self had experience with CentOS 7 before but switching to Ubuntu was not that much of a difference for most, I mean mostly you may have to google the corresponding package name since they differ in yum/apt. I choose Ubuntu over Rocky/Alma since I didn’t knew what would “win” and also the support times of Ubuntu LTS versions is great, same as the obvious advantage of having a huge user base.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Cheers</div><div>Kilian<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Kilian Schnelle</div><div>Department of Structural Biology</div><div>University of Osnabrueck</div><div>Barbarastr. 13</div><div>D-49076 Osnabrueck, Germany</div><div>Phone: +49 541 969 7508</div><div><a href="mailto:kilian.schnelle@uni-osnabrueck.de" class="">Email: kilian.schnelle@uni-osnabrueck.de</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10. May 2022, at 10:28, Christian Tüting <<a href="mailto:christian.tueting@biochemtech.uni-halle.de" class="">christian.tueting@biochemtech.uni-halle.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear 3dem mailing list recipients,<br class=""><br class="">I would like to get your opinion on which operating system is the most<br class="">suitable for our local server environment.<br class=""><br class="">To frame the question:<br class="">We have multiple local workstations and storage servers with a very<br class="">heterogeneous architecture:<br class="">Different GPUs (2080Ti, 3090), different CPUs (Intel i9, Intel Xeon, AMD<br class="">EPYC), sometimes with a cache SSD, sometimes not. Different memory<br class="">sizes/types, different hard drive organization, etc.<br class=""><br class="">Currently, Centos 7 is installed on all the machines, but as you might<br class="">know, this OS is pretty old and the EOL is just in 2 years. As some of<br class="">the workstations needs some maintenance, I would like to not install<br class="">Centos 7 again, just to redo this in a couple of months.<br class=""><br class="">Our need for the machines is the following:<br class="">cryoSPARC, Scipion3, Relion<br class="">AlphaFold, NAMD/Gromacs<br class=""><br class="">For the storage/main node servers, there is no special need. We don't<br class="">have any workload balancer like SLURM, and also the storage servers<br class="">"just" stores the data, without any special need. Interconnectivity is<br class="">established over NFS or sshfs, but these should be possible in any unix<br class="">OS.<br class=""><br class="">I personally have experience with [X/K/U]buntu, Centos, and some Arch<br class="">Linux, so I am aware of the basic differences (e.g. apt vs yum).<br class=""><br class="">Proposed by cryoSPARC is Ubuntu, at some other point (might be in the<br class="">Scipion mailing list), Rocky Linux was proposed. Also, afaik, Scientific<br class="">Linux is often used.<br class=""><br class="">As I am used to Centos 7, handling outdated repos (e.g. GCC4 being the<br class="">default compiler) is a daily business, I would like to avoid in the<br class="">future. I think, this strongly points to Ubuntu, where a big and active<br class="">community is present.<br class=""><br class="">Thank you for your feedback :)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best regards<br class="">Christian<br class="">Dr. rer. nat. Christian Tüting<br class=""><br class="">Kastritis Laboratory for Biomolecular Research<br class="">Cryo-Electron Microscopy & Computational Structural Biology <br class="">________________________________________________<br class="">Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg<br class="">Biozentrum, Room A.2.19<br class="">IWE ZIK HALOmem NWG III<br class="">"Kryo-Elektronenmikroskopie an Membranproteinkomplexen"<br class="">Weinbergweg 22, 06120 Halle<br class="">tel: +49 345 5524985<br class="">web (Lab): <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.urz.uni-2Dhalle.de_kastritislab_&d=DwIDaQ&c=-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA&r=L7-zyQ-04fFCMRqzLIOnx7H0exGZHwIQe_wMPuY600I&m=M5tV4i7vwtyCEWiBFwqltoUDbWfJrQ6Rq4OeG3w6Pf3szICL5sanWtIgUYWC3B5_&s=UJR09zZF0h0c-vOZd4S3RmffzgEiJ7y_XgkY01dJpm8&e=" class="">https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__blogs.urz.uni-2Dhalle.de_kastritislab_&d=DwIDaQ&c=-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA&r=L7-zyQ-04fFCMRqzLIOnx7H0exGZHwIQe_wMPuY600I&m=M5tV4i7vwtyCEWiBFwqltoUDbWfJrQ6Rq4OeG3w6Pf3szICL5sanWtIgUYWC3B5_&s=UJR09zZF0h0c-vOZd4S3RmffzgEiJ7y_XgkY01dJpm8&e=</a> <br class="">web (HALOmem): <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.halomem.de_en_&d=DwIDaQ&c=-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA&r=L7-zyQ-04fFCMRqzLIOnx7H0exGZHwIQe_wMPuY600I&m=M5tV4i7vwtyCEWiBFwqltoUDbWfJrQ6Rq4OeG3w6Pf3szICL5sanWtIgUYWC3B5_&s=YPBQ4XfDHsZK6U3AgwzMuzhoNUcTjc4S2ntJIQ9jrJo&e=" class="">https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.halomem.de_en_&d=DwIDaQ&c=-35OiAkTchMrZOngvJPOeA&r=L7-zyQ-04fFCMRqzLIOnx7H0exGZHwIQe_wMPuY600I&m=M5tV4i7vwtyCEWiBFwqltoUDbWfJrQ6Rq4OeG3w6Pf3szICL5sanWtIgUYWC3B5_&s=YPBQ4XfDHsZK6U3AgwzMuzhoNUcTjc4S2ntJIQ9jrJo&e=</a> <br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">3dem mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu" class="">3dem@ncmir.ucsd.edu</a><br class="">https://mail.ncmir.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/3dem<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>