RE: Quick cluster licensing question

["Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)" <KCollins chevrontexaco com>]

I was involved (tangentially) in meetings our HPC group was having about
RHEL licensing and clustering, and the answer at the time (a few months
ago) was that each node is an installed RHEL system and you must have a
license for each installed RHEL system. 

Needless to say, they have not moved forward to RHEL and are considering
a switch to SuSE, which doesn't have these licensing issues. A 200+ node
would be extremely expensive under RedHat's current licensing scheme.

Hopefully this will change...

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Lee Whatley,
Contractor
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:49 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Quick cluster licensing question


Hello all,

Are any of you here using RHEL v3 for HPC cluster computing?  If so how 
does the licensing work?  Are you just paying for one license/up2date 
entitlement for the entire cluster or are you having to pay per node? 
Are you using AS, ES, or WS?

I'm aware that I could use ROCKS (http://www.rocksclusters.org) and 
essentially get RHEL packages for free, but I'd like the piece of mind 
of being able to use up2date and know that I have security errata as 
soon as Redhat releases it.

Thanks in advance,
-Lee



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