[M3devel] OS for CM3

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi:
if easy of administration is what you are looking for maybe a bsd flavour a is the right choice of use probably it would be a linux distro but a common sense of easy administration and use like ubuntu rh/centos server or why not a gentoo or archlinux if customization is what you want to add more cores linux will support up to 1024 and the small or medium size servers are commonly used in this servers sizes I guess you have a good choice to take advantage, how many does support Win server 2k3 (up to 64?) an another bsd up to how many?  

Hope it helps, thanks in advance

--- El sáb, 22/5/10, Mika Nystrom <mika at async.async.caltech.edu> escribió:

> De: Mika Nystrom <mika at async.async.caltech.edu>
> Asunto: [M3devel] OS for CM3
> Para: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Fecha: sábado, 22 de mayo, 2010 16:53
> Hi Modula-3ers,
> 
> Can anyone give me some advice on what OS to install on a
> new PC compute
> server with 16 to 24 cores and 16 to 32 GB of RAM? 
> The code I'm going
> to be running is all written in Modula-3 with some C and
> Fortran thrown
> in and I want to use CM3.  The odd extra thing in Java
> and some analysis
> in R.  Currently I'm stuck with PM3 on FreeBSD/i386.
> 
> I've always liked the ease of administration (i.e., I'm an
> old dog and I
> don't have to learn anything new) of FreeBSD, but the
> threading support
> seems much better with Linux?  I do really want to run
> multi-threaded
> programs across several CPUs.
> 
> I am considering Debian/amd64.  Any other
> recommendations, experiences?
> 
>     Mika
>