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On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 11:34, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: |
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> Perhaps one aspect of this list, just to get things perked up a bit, |
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> could be a discussion of adding to the Gentoo HPC How-To. I think this |
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> is a great first start, but it is very, very basic. The biggest part of |
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> managing clusters is managing them _as_ a cluster: log collection, node |
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> monitoring and event reporting, cluster node rebuilds, software |
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> management, user management, high-performance filesystems, compiler |
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> management, user environment management and updates, backups, and the like. |
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Yeah, I was thinking about adding some stuff on C3 [1] once I got a |
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chance to play around with it a bit. I haven't used Ganglia, but perhaps |
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someone else has? |
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There are a few other nice docs around that haven't made it to our |
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website yet, including: |
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http://www.brianandsara.net/gentoo/docs/fs-selection-guide.php |
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http://www.brianandsara.net/gentoo/docs/heartbeat-howto.php |
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http://www.brianandsara.net/gentoo/docs/keepalived-howto.php |
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I'd like someone to put some info together on using systemimager in a |
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cluster setting, once it gets back into portage. |
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Something else that needs to be done is for people to check out the |
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tools Rocks/OSCAR have and whether they can be used in Gentoo natively |
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or ported to it. |
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What _really_ needs to happen with the HPC howto is turning it into a |
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sort of index page for setting up a cluster, with links to the specific |
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subsections. Perhaps handbook format would be more appropriate. |
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> With the extreme flexibility Gentoo offers, it would be impossible to |
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> discuss all of the possibilities for all of what I mention above. |
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> However, picking current best-of-breed applications and adding them to |
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> this document would add value to the project. |
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Agreed, but someone needs to commit the time to do the adding. People |
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interested in and good at writing documentation are few and far between. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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1. http://www.csm.ornl.gov/torc/C3/ |
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