ALINKA Linux Clustering Letter, October 3rd. 2001 (fwd)

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The ALINKA Linux Clustering Letter,

Wednesday, October the 3rd. 2001

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News from the High Performance world, by Dr Laurent Gatineau
(lgatineau at alinka.com)
======================================================================
Software for Beowulf cluster
========
SCE V1.2 (Scalable Computing Environment) [1]
Scalable    Cluster Environment  (SCE) is    a   set of  interoperable
opensource tools that  enable users to build  and  use Beowulf cluster
effectively to solve their problems.
[1] http://prg.cpe.ku.ac.th/research/sce/

Tips and tricks from the Beowulf mailing list
========
* Bruno Richard [m1] posted a link (the  good link is there [1]) about
  Linpack   scalability  on  a   mainstream  cluster.   Definition  of
  mainstream cluster (vs other cluster) is given there [m2].
[1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-206.html
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001255.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001343.html

* David Vos  [m1] is  looking for  information  about Gaussian   98 on
  RedHat  7.x.   Gary Stiehr  [m2]  reported that  it run  fine with a
  RedHat 7.1.
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001358.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001378.html

* Sebastien  Cabaniols [m1] is  looking for information about swapping
  over the network (for diskless  nodes).  Mark Hahn [m2] is wondering
  if its a good idea because doing network needs memory, he wrote that
  NBD [1] should work.   Donald  Becker [m3]  wrote that  Linux kernel
  2.2.x could run without swap.
[1] http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/nbd/nbd.html
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001366.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001371.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001373.html

* Brian  Korsedal    [m1] wants  to   use free   CPU  of  this  office
  station. Some Beowulfers    [m2, m3, m4]   pointed him  to  SGE [1],
  Condor [2].
  Eray Ozkural   [m5, m6] is  looking  for information  on  how to run
  parallalel batch jobs  on cluster, preventing  users to log on nodes
  and run their own   application.   Gary Stiehr [m7]  answered   that
  OpenPBS  answer to  its first    question,  but he will need    some
  middleware for the second point.
[1] http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/
[2] http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001328.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001339.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001395.html
[m4] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001340.html
[m5] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001380.html
[m6] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001383.html
[m7] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-October/001387.html

* Nick  Gregory  [m1]   wants   the    best  CPU for   1U node  (AMD,
  P4...). Actually  there  is no  way to  have  P4 in   1U [m2].   Rob
  Myers [m3] explained that compilers  and cooling are  more important
  than CPU.
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001291.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001331.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001341.html

* Joel Jaeggli  [m1] and Donald Becker  [m2] gave adivecs  about Fiber
  Gigabit Ethernet cards.
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001321.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001346.html

News from MOSIX mailing list by Benoit des Ligneris
<bligneri at physique.usherb.ca>
=====================================================================
* Gregory R. Wames announced [m1] the release of a new ClusterNFS version [1].
  It's a project very useful for managing diskless clusters (MOSIX ones in
  particular).
[m1] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Sep/0132.html
[1]  http://clusternfs.sourceforge.net/

* Tim Chipman [m1] share his statistics on the scaling of MOSIX clusters and
  find a "Saturation Effect" nodes/jobs. Andreas Korn says that the some
  syscalls get very slow when executed on the home node. Eric Whiting
  suggested some explanations and tests to proove it.
[m1] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Oct/0007.html
[m2] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Oct/0008.html
[m3] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Oct/0011.html

News from the High Availability world
======================================================================
Failsafe by Guillaume GIMENEZ (ggimenez at alinka.com)
========
* Joachim Gleissner announces [m1] new release of failsafe for SuSE
is available [1]

[1] ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/failsafe
[m1] http://lists.community.tummy.com/pipermail/linuxfailsafe/2001-September/001237.html

Linux-HA dev by Rached Ben Mustapha (rached at alinka.com)
========
- Alan Robertson posted [m1] a little summary of linux-ha software
  progress.

- Alan Robertson announced [m2] that version 0.4.9.0a was up for testing
  on the web site.

[m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ha-dev&m=100208889131477&w=2
[m2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ha-dev&m=100198954331171&w=2

Linux-HA by Rached Ben Mustapha (rached at alinka.com)
========
- Lorn Kay asked [m1] if two pairs of heartbeat servers could use the
  same physical network without generating lots of "failed authentication".
  Alan Robertson replied [m2] that to keep heartbeat broadcasting he
  should use separate port numbers, or use multicast with different multicast
  groups.

- Lars Marowsky-Bree posted [m3] a call for participation for the Linux
  Kongress 2001 Clustering Workshop, on November 26 - 28 2001, at
  Enschede, NL.
  More info is available on the mail archive.

[m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ha&m=100179377712154&w=2
[m2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ha&m=100179487914051&w=2
[m3] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ha&m=100151424401828&w=2

LVS by Rached Ben Mustapha (rached at alinka.com)
========
- Alexandre Cassen announced [m1] the release 0.0.3 of LVSGSP [l1],
  that supports LVS FWMARK virtual server.

- Serge Sozonoff launched here [m2] a thread discussing about LVS and
  ethernet Bridging, which would be somewhere between VS-NAT and VS-DR
  in performance terms.

[m1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-virtual-server&m=100197878908286&w=2
[m2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-virtual-server&m=100161489013483&w=2
[l1] http://linuxvirtualserver.org/~acassen/lvsgsp-0.0.3.tar.gz

News on the Filesystems front
======================================================================
reiserfs by Guillaume Gimenez (ggimenez at alinka.com)
========
* Nikita Danilov advise us [m2] that there is a patch [2] to support
  immutable and noatime filesystem attributes.

[m2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=100218568727101&w=2
[2] ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/misc-patches/linux-2.4.5-inode-attrs-1.d.gz

JFS by Ludovic Ishiomin (lishiomin at alinka.com)
========
* Steve Best announced JFS 1.0.6 [1m].

[1m] http://oss.software.ibm.com/pipermail/jfs-discussion/2001-September/000605.html

News on other cluster related topics
======================================================================
linux-ia64 by Guillaume GIMENEZ (ggimenez at alinka.com)
========
linux-ia64
========
* Keith Owens announces [m3] kdb v1.9 for IA64  is available [3]
[3] ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/download/ia64/
[m3] https://external-lists.valinux.com/archives//linux-ia64/2001-October/002235.html

LVM by Bruno Muller (bmuller at alinka.com)
=====
* Jim Cromie had a problem with lvcrete on LVM 1.0.1-rc2 and kernel
  2.4.10.[m1] John Marquart answered that he is running into a problem he
  had and there is a patch.[m2]
* AJ Lewis annouced that LVM 1.0.1-rc4 is available.[m3]
* Andre Margis posted a patch for lvm-1.0.1-rc4 to work under
  linux-2.4.10-ac4[m4]
[m1] http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-September/008979.html
[m2] http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-September/008980.html
[m3] http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-October/009071.html
[m4] http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-October/009088.html

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