[Beowulf] Perceus and Warewulf use and support?

[John Hearns]

Jeff, as Doug says Warewulf is being used by OpenHPC
Coem join us over there and there is plenty of activity.



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From: Beowulf [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Friedman
Sent: 12 September 2016 23:03
To: Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org>
Cc: Beowulf List <beowulf at beowulf.org>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Perceus and Warewulf use and support?

Thank you Doug, this is just the kind of info I was looking for! It does clear things up nicely. I had looked on the http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac site and joined the IRC room (#warewulf) but had not seen any activity. But I do see there is very current activity on the Google Groups sites. Long live Warewulf!

Jeff Friedman
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On Sep 12, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org> wrote:


> Hello all,
>
> I am soliciting any type of feedback regarding the current usage of
> Perceus and Warewulf for provisioning and cluster management use. From
> what I have read, Warewulf was sort of split into two parts, Perceus
> being the provisioning part, and Warewulf being the surrounding
> management part (monitoring, etc).

Not quite. Perceus was a rewrite of WW v1, seems to have died on the vine.
WW V2+ is where you want to look. WW does both provisioning and management (always has).

> The thing is, I have not seen much info on the web that is not several
> years old. I am unsure of how these products are being supported and
> developed, if at all. There was a company called Infiscale that used
> to support Perceus, but now the web site is defunct.

I realize in internet years "several years is old" however, WW is quite stable, so the documentation is not see in great changes, WW page has documentation: http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac (True Confession: I am supposed to be working on improving the WW docs progress has been slow, writing too many Hadoop books)

Also, Google "layton warewulf" to get Jeff Layton's excellent articles on WW.

>
> Does anyone have any insight as to if these two applications are still
> actively developed and support, and in use?

Forget Perceus, WW is actively used and developed with very good people behind it. Also, it is part of the open OpenHPC project

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