Experimental Technologies Platform, SURF (aka SARA), The Netherlands
The Experimental Technologies Platform (ETP) has a broad experimentation scope within advanced computing and data driven science: the platform strives to connect with external infrastructures, promoting cross-disciplinary partnerships and involving external stakeholders. We use Debian as the main OS to deploy various systems(around 30) of various hardware vendors. We have chosen Debian because the OS is the best fit to have Vanilla Kernel support of hardware. The ease of adding security updates and/or OS upgrades makes it an easy to use platform. With more then 20 years of experience installing large clusters with Debian we have gained a lot of trust in this distribution.