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- Must support CASA
- Will need a patching/updating mechanism
- How to boot diskless OS images
- I am not finding any new sexy software packages to automate PXE+DHCP+TFTP+NFS https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_storage_devices/setting-up-a-remote-diskless-system_managing-storage-devices
- One OS image for both our use and locals use or multiple OS images?
- Use containers (docker, singularity/apptainer, kubernetes, mesos, etc)?
- Ask Greg at CHTC what they use
- What Linux distrobution to use?
- Can we use Red Hat with our current license? I have looked in JDE and I can't find a recent subscription. Need to ask David.
- Should we buy Red Hat licenses like we did for USNO?
- USNO is between $10K and $15K per year for 81 licensed nodes. This may not be an EDU license.
- NRAO used to have a 1,000 host license for Red Hat but I don't know what they have now.
- Do we even want to use Red Hat?
- Alternatives would be Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux since CentOS is essentially dead
Third party software for VLASS
- CASA
- HTCondor
- Will need a way to maintain the software
- stow, rpm, modules, containers?
Third party software for Local
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