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What hardware/software does Ohm use?

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What hardware/software does Ohm use?

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For Ohm’s hardware, see our hardware configuration page. Originally, Scyld OS provided most of Ohm’s system software, which includes cluster-management utilities, as well as parallel-processing libraries like MPI and PVM. When Scyld changed the documentation and pricing policy, we switched to a customized version of Redhat Linux. Near the end of the project, we switched to a customized version of Gentoo Linux, to simplify administration, updates, and maintenance, as well as to ensure that all of our installed software was optimized as much as possible for our hardware. Students write their own application software, and faculty researchers may use open-source or commercial software (e.g., Gaussian, gridMathematica), depending on their research needs.