# What is the difference **URL:** \ **Category:** SLES High Performance Computing (HPC)\ **Created:** [January 17, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-is-the-difference/34707 "2020-01-17T20:56:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jyeagley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/65b543/32.png) [@jyeagley](https://forums.suse.com/u/jyeagley)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-is-the-difference/34707/1 "2020-01-17T20:56:32Z")
Good morning guys. I am a sales guy for SUSE and I am looking for competitive information of the differences of SUSE vs. Everybody (Centos) for HPC environments. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason Yeagley ---
**Author:** ![smflood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/smflood/32/10576_2.png) [@smflood](https://forums.suse.com/u/smflood)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-is-the-difference/34707/2 "2020-01-29T19:42:35Z")
[QUOTE=jyeagley;59239]Good morning guys. I am a sales guy for SUSE and I am looking for competitive information of the differences of SUSE vs. Everybody (Centos) for HPC environments. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason Yeagley[/QUOTE] Presumably you’ve already found, read, and memorised all the information available from [https://www.suse.com/programs/high-performance-computing/](https://www.suse.com/programs/high-performance-computing/) … ? 😉 Yes there are differences (just as there are for non-HPC) but since you specifically mentioned CentOS I’ll note that whilst there used to be a version of Scientific Linux (often used for HPC) following RHEL releases that changed with the release of RHEL8 - see [https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ANNOUNCE;11d6001.1904](https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ANNOUNCE;11d6001.1904) . HTH.