[Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro?

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:26:37PM +0200, jaquilina wrote:
> Not wanting to hijack this thread hassle anyone tried to cluster raspi 3's? What distribution would you recommend for a pi3 cluster? 
> Out of curiosity would somethinglike gentoo and it's cross development setup get you what you want in the form of binaries?
> 
> 

Google Raspberry Pi Bramble

If you're using the Raspberry Pi 3 - Raspbian is the only game in town at the moment to fully support it, I think.

Note: although it's a 64 bit processor, firmware currently released hobbles it to 32 bits for a lot of things.
It also needs to be the very latest Raspbian released in the last couple of days.

Debian works on Raspberry Pi 2 quite nicely because it's ARM7

Gentoo - meh - I'm not sure that the cross-development tools would work well.

Debian has significant experience in this cross-compilation lark :)

... but I would back Debian on this one.

AndyC

amacater at debian.org among others :)


> Sent from Samsung tablet.-------- Original message --------From: Mark Hahn <hahn at mcmaster.ca> Date: 12/05/2016  20:59  (GMT+01:00) To: Beowulf Mailing List <beowulf at beowulf.org> Subject: [Beowulf] recommendations on ARM distro? 
> Hi all,
> we have a (tiny) experimental ARM box - based on Cavium ThunderX, 
> but have run into basic issues with distros (ie, ARM+ldap+ubuntu=fail).
> 
> If you're using ARM (on something bigger than a RPi), 
> what distro are you using?
> 
> thanks,
> mark hahn
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