ALINKA Linux Clustering Letter, September 12th. 2001 (fwd)

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Subject: ALINKA Linux Clustering Letter, September 12th. 2001
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The ALINKA Linux Clustering Letter,

Wednesday, September the 12th. 2001

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News from the High Performance world, by Dr Laurent Gatineau
(lgatineau at alinka.com)
======================================================================
Tips and tricks from the Beowulf mailing list
========
* Jon Tegner [m1] is looking for  a distributed file system and asking
  if AFS good be the choice.  Sean Dilda [m2] explained why AFS is not
  suited for cluster.  Thierry Mallard [m3] pointed him to GFS [1] and
  Robert Ross [m4] when NFS or PVFS could be needed.
[1] http://www.sistina.com/products_gfs.htm
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-August/001192.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001201.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001214.html
[m4] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001213.html

* Raul  A.  Gonzalez   Olimon [m1]  experienced  problem  with channel
  bonding on  RTL8139  NIC. Except  W  Bauske   [m2]  who reported  no
  problem,   all    other  beowulfers  do    not  recommend  this  NIC
  [m3,m4,m5,m6]
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001190.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001208.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001202.html
[m4] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001203.html
[m5] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001205.html
[m6] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001210.html

* Alvin  Starr   [m1]  is looking   for   something to  synhronize its
  nodes. NTP seems to be the best choice [m2,m3].
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001215.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001216.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001218.html

* Martin  Siegert [m1] wants   to use Wake On  Lan   on its  nodes but
  failed.  Donald  Becker   [m2] gave  technical  answers/explanation.
  Claude Pignol [m3] gave a procedure which works on its nodes.
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001220.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001224.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001222.html

* Greg Lindahl [m1] is looking for information about the i845 chipset.
  Joel Jaeggli [m2] wrote this chipset doesn't do SMP.  Mark Hahn [m3]
  posted a link [1] to few similar streams benchmark.
[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q3/010702/images/book1_26516_image001.gif
[m1] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001234.html
[m2] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001236.html
[m3] http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2001-September/001242.html

News from MOSIX mailing list by Benoit des Ligneris
<bligneri at physique.usherb.ca>
=====================================================================
* Where is the process ask Amit Shah [m1]. Use the utility 'mtop' et 'mps' in
  the contrib section of mosix.org answer Mathias Rechenburg.
[m1] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Sep/0055.html
[m2] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Sep/0057.html
[1]  http://www.mosix.org/ftps/contrib/

* Question about the possibility of migrating any process between two
  computers connected over internet by Jason Boudreault [m1], some technical
  answer (latency time) by Chris Buron [m2] and security concern answer
  by Giacomo Mulas [m3].
[m1] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Sep/0059.html
[m2] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Sep/0061.html
[m3] http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/month-arch/2001/Sep/0064.html

News from the High Availability world
======================================================================
DRBD devel by Guillaume GIMENEZ (ggimenez at alinka.com)
========
* Jean-Yves Bouet asked [m1] interesting question about
drbd internals. Philipp Reisner answered [m2] him with
a lot of details.
[m1] http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3756/2001/9/0/6606388/
[m2] http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3756/2001/9/0/6611586/

* Philipp Reisner [m3] announced drbd 0.6.1 prerelease 1 for
linux kernel 2.4.9. Philipp invite you to test this release.
[m3] http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/3756/2001/9/0/6612971/

* Philipp Reisner advised [m4] us that /var/lib/nfs directory
must be on the drbd device when building an highly available nfs
server.
[m4] http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/3756/0/6613103/

News on the Filesystems front
======================================================================
Coda by Ludovic Ishiomin (lishiomin at alinka.com)
========
* Shafeq Shimmanoid explains the Coda behaviour when handling large files [1m].
[1m] http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/codalist-2001/0769.html

GFS by Ludovic Ishiomin (lishiomin at alinka.com)
========
* The OpenGFS project team has released a roadmap that was discussed [1m].
They were also be questions about interoperability [2m].

[1m] http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/15276/0/6602817/ and the
followings
[2m] http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/15276/0/6595706/ and the
followings.

Intermezzo by Ludovic Ishiomin (lishiomin at alinka.com)
========
* Erik Heinz related its experience with Intermezzo [1m].

[1m] http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/8077/0/6590949/ and the
followings

News on other cluster related topics
======================================================================
linux-ia64 by Guillaume GIMENEZ (ggimenez at alinka.com)
========
* David Mosberger posted [m5] a patch to cleanup the
ia32 subsystem that fixes problems when running some
programs.
[m5] https://external-lists.valinux.com/archives/linux-ia64/2001-September/002110.html

LVM by Bruno Muller (bmuller at alinka.com)
=====
* AJ Lewis posted a patch to run LVM 1.0.1rc2 on 2.4.8 kernel[m1].
* Taher H. Haveliwala had installed lvm on a stock RedHat 7.1 without
rebuilding the kernel and without rebooting[m2].
[m1] http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-September/008697.html
[m2] http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-September/008749.html

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