Meanwhile, Alma Linux gets into supercomputers
Good news for users of RHEL versions old and new – and for the freebie CentOS Linux 7, which is approaching its end of life next month.is out, and the IBM subsidiary is also offering an extension of support for the aging RHEL 7 released way back in 2014.
Alma Linux 9.4 is still in beta, but if you want to know what's new in RHEL 9.4, we reported on what was coming when welast month. Aside from Alma Linux 9.4 still supporting some aging hardware that the official RHEL 9.4 drops, what's new is largely the same in them both. Thatand what Red Hat really wants you to do is upgrade to that. If you are still running RHEL 7, which is now approaching a decade old, there's good news.
If you're using the freebie CentOS 7, you can pay CIQ some money instead, and keep getting updates for anotherdocumentationa given, as it is for users of most other distribution families. For Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, and openSUSE users, this kind of thing is relatively routine. This is why the Alma Linux folks developed theirloosely coupled clusters
: many thousands of separate Linux boxes, to which you can automatically push out software – for example, with something like– and then automatically split your data into lots of chunks, and farm those chunks out to all the machines in the cluster, for instance withtoo. Licensing a paid-for Linux for five and six-figure numbers of nodes can obviously get very expensive fast, so this is an area of opportunity for free distros.
But why now? Well, since doing the same sort of numerical computation and transforms on large blocks of data is what modern GPU hardware is made for, this is a key sales area for GPU vendors. As big playersbots, the inaccurately named"AI" of which everyone is now suddenly so fond.
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