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On Thursday 11 December 2003 04:38 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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<snip> |
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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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> |
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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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Sorry about that, I thought I had fixed that a long time ago, but apparently |
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only for some pages, all pages should be fixed now. Also the heartbeat howto |
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is pretty complete, the keepalived howto, and the fs selection guide need |
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some work though. |
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> |
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> Next, some goals and our progress: |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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