CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian
CERN said the switch will reduce maintenance and avoid replacing up to 65% of its underground front-end computers.
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CERN Walks Away From Decades of Red Hat Linux Over One Compiler Flag
CERN surprised the high-performance computing world this week. The European laboratory that hosts the Large Hadron Collider is moving more than 2,200 industrial computers and embedded systems from its longtime Red Hat Enterprise Linux base to Debian. The shift targets accelerator-control hardware spread across 43 square kilometers. Completion is set for the end of 2026. The news broke at MiniDebConf in Winterthur, Switzerland. Engineers Federico…
CERN adopts the Debian Linux distribution for part of its control systems, so far based on distributions of the Red Hat ecosystem. This migration must in particular avoid it an estimated hardware renewal of 5.4 million francs, made necessary by the new RHEL processor requirements.
CERN Is Switching to Debian 13, Even Though They Had Their Own Linux. Goodbye Red Hat and AlmaLinux.
CERN is migrating over 2,000 computers to Debian 13. Previously, they had been using Red Hat RHEL and its fork, AlmaLinux, for years. The transition will be immediate, in line with the standards of many organizations – the system will be installed on all... Full version of the website: https://ithardware.pl/aktualnosci/cern_debian_13_red_hat_almalinux-53771.html
CERN started migrating its industrial computers from RHEL to Debian 13, avoiding millions of costs generated by Red Hat's x86-64-v2 requirement.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has embarked on a major Linux migration, with plans to migrate more than 2,200 industrial computers and embedded systems to Debian 13 (Trixie) by the end of 2026. These machines form the core of the particle accelerator complex, which spans approximately 624 hectares and is directly connected to more than 17,000 specialized […]
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