Hi all, In our team we deployed Gate on 2 different clusters. Both Linux, one with Fedora and Ubuntu for the second, and both with the Condor cluster utility. The Fedora distribution is changing every 6 months, so if you want to always have an up-to-date system it is not recommended, because it is very annoying when you have to reinstall everything on multiple machine... The Ubuntu community produces some LTS (Long Time Support) distributions that permit you to keep your system up-to-date for at least 2 years (to be verified), and it is pretty easy at the end of this period to upgrade your installation to the new one without having to reinstall all stuff. We have no experience at all with Scientific linux. I think that your choice is strickly dependent on what you want to do with your machines. Do you plan to use its for other things than just running Gate on it ? Do you want to run other programs that need to follow the gcc evolution for example ? And what clustering utility do you want to use ? Concerning this point, we always used and use Condor. It is pretty easy to install and configure if you have few Linux and Network knowledge. It allows to do a lot of things (from basic to very twisted). And the Cluster_Tools from GATE totally support Condor. The Condor team distributes either some binaries for few distributions that are very easy to install (then you have to configure few things as I said), or the source code if you don't find yours. When we installed Condor on Fedora, there were Fedora binaries, but now there aren't anymore... And for Ubuntu, we take (as advised in condor forums) the RedHat enterprise binaries that are still working well ! Hope these informations could be useful, Cheers, Simon <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM, David Sharpe <<a href="mailto:das74@wbic.cam.ac.uk">das74@wbic.cam.ac.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Alan, I can't offer any advice - but I am in a similiar situation and would be interested in which road you choose to go down. We already use GridEngine here so I am tempted to implement it over that - there is some code kindly contributed somewhere which supports it. Thanks, Dave<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> Alan Green wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello all We are about to deploy a cluster. Does anyone have any advice on what configuration will work best (or work at all)? Which Linux distribution to use (and which to avoid), which version of Gate, or any advice that will help us "jump start" the system will be greatly appreciated. At present, I am running a single workstation installation using Gate 4.0.0 on Scientific Linux. Many thanks Alan Dr Alan J Green Senior Lecturer UCL Cancer Institute Paul O'Gorman Building University College London 72 Huntley Street London  WC1E 6DD  DL: +44 (0)20 7679 6220 ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager (<a href="mailto:it.support@cancer.ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank">it.support@cancer.ucl.ac.uk</a>). ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Gate-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Gate-users@lists.healthgrid.org" target="_blank">Gate-users@lists.healthgrid.org</a> <a href="http://lists.healthgrid.org/mailman/listinfo/gate-users" target="_blank">http://lists.healthgrid.org/mailman/listinfo/gate-users</a>   </blockquote> </div></div> -- David Sharpe Assistant Network Manager Acting Telephone Liaison Officer Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre ================================================================ Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre    | Tel: (direct)     01223 762128 University of Cambridge         | Tel: (reception)  01223 331823 Box 65, Addenbrooke's Hospital  | Fax:              01223 331826 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ  | <a href="mailto:Email%3Adavid.sharpe@wbic.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">Email:david.sharpe@wbic.cam.ac.uk</a> <a href="http://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk</a>       |<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> ================================================================ _______________________________________________ Gate-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Gate-users@lists.healthgrid.org" target="_blank">Gate-users@lists.healthgrid.org</a> <a href="http://lists.healthgrid.org/mailman/listinfo/gate-users" target="_blank">http://lists.healthgrid.org/mailman/listinfo/gate-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>