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Fermilab releases a new version of Scientific Linux |
| 02-24-2011 |
Scientific Linux 6.0 has been released for both i386 and x86_64 architecture.
SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters.
The Linux operating system produced at Fermilab enabled the laboratory, and other high-energy physics institutions to build large physics data analysis clusters using affordable, commercially available computers.
Scientific Linux release 6.0 is based on the rebuilding of RPMS out of SRPMS's from Enterprise 6 Server and Client.
Fermilab began packaging and distributing Scientific Linux in 2004 to the broad high-energy physics community. At that time, it was used on only 1,500 machines. Today, Scientific Linux is run on tens of thousands of machines and is the operating system that powers some of the world’s largest physics experiments, including some experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. The newest version, Scientific Linux 6, is put together by the Fermilab Computing Division, specifically the Fermilab Experiments Facilities Department, and by DESY, CERN and other laboratories and universities across the world. |
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