From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Guix on clusters and in HPC Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:04:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87pomxhcdt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r37divr8.fsf@gnu.org> <878ttlemfu.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwWsX-0006N6-4G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:04:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwWsT-0007js-4s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 12:04:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878ttlemfu.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:55:33 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: Guix-devel Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Great! I wonder how much of the need for cluster / HPC stuff overlaps > with the desiderata of "Guix Ops" / "guix deploy"? I think it=E2=80=99s quite different. Cluster nodes usually run a vendor-provided GNU/Linux distro (often the ancient RPM-based ones) on top of which admins add their own thing, which could be Guix. Of course in an ideal world people would run GuixSD on all the cluster nodes and use =E2=80=9Cguix deploy=E2=80=9D to that end, but that=E2=80=99s= not what I had in mind here. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.