> From what can we see, our users can run their ML/DL loads relatively effortlessly on CentOS for some time. Yes, containers are a god-send for those apps that

> From what can we see, our users can run their ML/DL loads relatively effortlessly on CentOS for some time. Yes, containers are a god-send for those apps that require some specific version of a specific distro. > Do you use IB on your nodes? If yes, is it easy to deploy the kernel modules? Yes, we do. We use Mellanox OFED, which supports Ubuntu, so it's no more difficult than on CentOS. Perhaps even slightly easier, since minor Ubuntu version updates don't break the kernel internal ABI's so there's no need to wait for all your out-of-tree kernel stuff (MOFED, Lustre, whatnot) to be updated before you can upgrade.