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Hi everyone, |
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This is the new, public list for clustering on Gentoo, and I'd like to |
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get things kicked off. |
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First, some background: |
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The Gentoo Cluster Project [1] has been around since mid-summer, but so |
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far most of our work has been devoted to maintaining sys-cluster and |
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beginning to get some solid documentation together. |
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Adelie Linux helped us out this summer with a high-performance computing |
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(HPC) HOWTO (well, most of one) and donation of some computer time |
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during LWE so we could run some demos of clustering on Gentoo. |
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Unfortunately they've been pretty scarce lately. |
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IRT other documentation, Michael Imhof (tantive) has put together an |
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openMosix HOWTO (the current docs-team one is for diskless nodes) and |
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Lisa Seelye (lisa) has written up a distcc HOWTO. |
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You'll notice that most of the emphasis has been on HPC instead of |
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high-availability (HA). |
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Brian Jackson (iggy) has written up some information on the HA side of |
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things [2]. It looks like it currently includes a keepalived HOWTO, a |
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heartbeat HOWTO, and a filesystem choice HOWTO, although I was only able |
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to get to the heartbeat one a few minutes ago because of access denied |
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errors. Lately he's been busy managing the kernel team, however, so we |
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could use some more help on the HA subproject. |
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Next, some goals and our progress: |
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Stephen Diener (sediener) is interested in setting up a ROCKS-like [3] |
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LiveCD to install an "insta-cluster" from. He's also been adding some of |
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the ganglia [4] packages to portage. |
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Mark Weinstein (burnedoutgeek on IRC) made a minimal, bootable openMosix |
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LiveCD. He's been scarce lately, but still around. |
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Both of the above will be made exponentially easier once catalyst [5] |
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can make LiveCDs. Catalyst can already make stages, so we could start |
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putting cluster install stages together at any point. Stephen expressed |
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some interest in this, and he said he would look at ROCKS to see what |
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exactly was installed. |
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Chris Taylor (ct) has been working on adding some packages to portage. |
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He's been concentrating on pvfs [6] lately. |
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One of the really interesting things out there I'd like to see in |
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portage is Condor [7]. It's only available in binary format right now so |
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we'll need a condor-bin ebuild. |
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S. Caglar Onur (Charlie on IRC, sorry for mangling your name) has |
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recently shown some interest in the HA subproject and plans to write a |
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HA mail server HOWTO. |
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Summary: |
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We need to enhance our documentation. We're waiting on catalyst to make |
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progress on the cluster LiveCDs and stages. We could use more help with |
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the high-availability subproject. |
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Now, what do you have to say on this or anything I forgot to mention? |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie Berkholz (spyderous) |
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1. http://cluster.gentoo.org/ |
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2. http://gentoo.brianandsara.net/wiki/tiki-index.php |
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3. http://rocks.npaci.edu/ |
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4. http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ |
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5. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/index.xml |
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6. http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/ |
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7. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ |
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