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Tuesday, November the 11th, 2002 Dear readers, I am happy to send you this week's edition of clustering?alinka!com. clustering?alinka!com is a free weekly e-mail newsletter on linux clustering. It provides a summary of the weekly activity in mailing-lists relative to linux clustering (such as beowulf, linux virtual server or linux-ha) and general clustering news. For more information about ALINKA, see: http://www.alinka.com News from the High Performance world ====================================================================== Tips and tricks from the Beowulf mailing list by Dr Didier Remy (dremy?alinka!com) ======== * Rafael Garcia announces [m1] that his Wiki [1] about clusters grows enough to setup a PDF document [2] from it. [m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=beowulf&m=103607710017789&w=2 [1] http://heppc11.ft.uam.es/Clusters/Doc [2] http://heppc11.ft.uam.es/galera/wiki_cluster.pdf * Olli Laaksonen asks [m1] for monitoring software like Big Brother [1] for his cluster. The thread includes references to Ganglia [2], Nagios [3], xmlsysd [4], NetSaint [5] and SysOrb [6]. [m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=beowulf&m=103705655511621&w=2 [m2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=beowulf&m=103712278902082&w=2 [1] http://bb4.com/ [2] http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://www.nagios.org/ [4] http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/xmlsysd.html [5] http://www.netsaint.org/ [6] http://www.sysorb.com/ * Philippe Blaise starts a thread [m1] about clustered file system. [m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=beowulf&m=103729582204806&w=2 and the following * Eugen Leitl posts [m1] an article about a "10-Tflops computer built off the shelf". [m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=beowulf&m=103709733105889&w=2 * Paul Redfern starts [m1] another thread about the cost of running a Microsoft based cluster. [m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=beowulf&m=103653673915138&w=2 and the following Linux-ia64 by Rached Ben Mustapha (rached?alinka!com) ======== * Jason P Holland reported [m1] a problem with PXE boot on an HP zx6000 workstation. Alex Williamson replied [m2] that the problem was that the "pxelinux" file was only for ia32, and that elilo.efi was the right file to use. Stephane Eranian also explained [m3] why ia32 PXE servers could not work well with ia64 clients. * Peter Chubb posted [m4] a first shot at preemptible kernel for ia64. [m1] https://external-lists.vasoftware.com/archives//linux-ia64/2002-October/004142.html [m2] https://external-lists.vasoftware.com/archives//linux-ia64/2002-October/004145.html [m3] https://external-lists.vasoftware.com/archives//linux-ia64/2002-October/004149.html [m4] https://external-lists.vasoftware.com/archives//linux-ia64/2002-November/004290.html News from the High-Availability world, by Bruno Muller (bmuller?alinka!com) ====================================================================== drbd ===== * Philipp Reisner will rename drbd-0.6.1-pre18 to drbd-0.6.1 soon. [m1] [m1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1270001&forum_id=6513 LVS ===== * Wensong Zhang announced lvs version 1.0.7. [m1] [m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-virtual-server&m=103727023110036&w=2 ====================================================================== To subscribe to the list, send e-mail to clustering?alinka!com from the address you wish to subscribe, with the word "subscribe" in the subject. To unsubscribe from the list, send e-mail to clustering?alinka!com from the address you wish to unsubscribe from, with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject. Alinka is the editor of the ALINKA ORANGES and ALINKA RAISIN administration software for Linux clusters. (Web site: http://www.alinka.com |
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