As part of my best working practice, and as a devoted follower of linux technologies, paradigms and server-side computing I am a committed reader of the Linux Magazine. Yesterday they had a pretty good article on a linux distrubution that I have hitherto been unaware of (and should have known something about) and a rather basic introduction as to how to get the software running.
I am not sure what this means – at the moment BioRAM linux is slowly evolving, but is not really planned as a complete cluster software stack, but more as a bioinformatics cluster “central”. Am I re-inventing the wheel?
I have suspicions that BioRAM linux may be dead in the water (already) although it has a current, up-do-date and functioning application stack. I guess that the rPath linux made available through rBuilder may be a little off the bleeding edge curve, and I should perhaps again focus my energies elsewhere… This is rather negative thought, and anyone who works with me will know that negativity is bad and a positive spin must be added to everything ….
My feeling, Caos NSA looks like a very viable software distribution for a formal evaluation and review. To review such a tool we need a set of objectives, and some deliverables that will allow for an objective assessment as to whether the software is fit for purpose. Naturally, it is also rather important that we can package and install a set of software applications that will be needed across the cluster.
I’ll get back to this thought later, but I’m excited about the opportunity to take Caos NSA for a run over the weekend!