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DebConf8
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Fabricio Cannini |
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Day | DebConf day 6 (2008-08-15) |
Room | Salon del mar |
Start time | 16:00 |
Duration | 01:00 |
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ID | 304 |
Event type | bof |
Track | DebConf Unofficial |
Language | en |
Debian-HPC: making Debian "the" distro for clusters and supercomputers
World domination one node at a time

Enrico Zini's talk about world domination was missing an important step: clusters and supercomputers.
Yes, lots and lots and lots of number-cruching monsters, with hundreds of GBs of RAM and TBs of hard-disk space. From kernel patches to single packages to whole projects, how can we benefit from things like Oscar on Debian[0], OpenSSI[1], Debian Cluster Components [2], and vice-versa. This BoF is about what can we do to make our beloved distro run flawlesly on those beasts