[Linux-cluster] RE: [Clusters_sig] Planning a Cluster meeting at OLS

[Steven Dake]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 18:07, Walker, Bruce J wrote:
> Daniel,
> There is a single BoF slot of perhaps 1.5 hours.  The difference is
> 12-16 hours vs. 1.5.  The way I see it we will continue the work done at
> the Germany summit at the pre-OLS meeting. At the BoF we will just have
> time to report on what has been discussed/agreed/proposed in the summit
> and pre-OLS meetings. 
> 

Bruce

I agree that a larger time slot is very important to discuss all of the
relevant facts and approaches we have.  I for example would like an hour
or so to discuss group messaging approaches.

The approach of continuing the work taking place in Germany is very
problematic..  Many of the key people will not be at the Germany summit
because 1) it hasn't yet been announced and 2) its too late to get any
kind of travel approval 3) the cost of a germany summit trip being 4k
places it outside the boundaries of what most U.S.  companies are
willing to fork out.  OLS is a far superior venue for any kind of
cluster summit meeting since extending travel for 1-2 days is pretty
approachable for those already attending OLS.  I suggest the cluster
meeting at OLS be a standalone meeting, perhaps based upon some report
out of the results of the germany meeting instead of a continuation of
that effort.

regards
-steve

> bruce
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Phillips [mailto:phillips at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:01 PM
> To: clusters_sig at lists.osdl.org
> Cc: James Bottomley; Walker, Bruce J; linux-cluster at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Clusters_sig] Planning a Cluster meeting at OLS
> 
> On Monday 09 May 2005 11:21, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 06:04 -0700, Walker, Bruce J wrote:
> > > I am trying to gauge interest in a cluster meeting at OLS (before 
> > > OLS starts).  Topics would include, but not be limited to:
> > >    membership, fencing, apis, (kernel and non-kernel)
> > >    DLM
> > >    cluster filesystems (hooks, DLMs, recovery, membership, etc.)
> > >    common hooks for clusterwide process management
> > >       - openssi, openmosix, bproc, kerrighed, cassat, ...
> > > Goal would be to make progress toward common infrastructure or 
> > > common infrastructure interfaces that various groups could work 
> > > with.
> 
> Now the obvious question: what is the difference between a BOF and a
> cluster workshop at OLS?  The former is a greatly expanded version of
> the latter?  Why not just expand the OLS BOF into two or more sessions?
> 
> (Currently it is already two, as the session lead by me and the SSI
> session lead by Bruce haven't actually been merged yet, as far as I
> know.)
> 
> I do see logistical issues.  A venue would have to be arranged, which
> takes money.  Has anybody stepped up?
> 
> > I have two topics that seem to me to be important for this:
> >
> > 1. Since almost every one of those clusters has pieces in the kernel 
> > and pieces in userland, getting information across the kernel/user 
> > boundary in a uniform fashion for all of them seems to be crucial.
> > At the moment, it looks like the OCFS usysfs mechanism is really the 
> > only candidate, but that's still encountering turbulence from Al Viro.
> 
> > Perhaps agreeing on a common such mechanism and how it should be 
> > implemented would be useful
> 
> For that, I use a message transport similar to dbus, with great success.
> 
> > 2. I'd like to see a readout from the Red Hat Walldorf cluster event 
> > added to the agenda (assuming such an event takes place, that is).
> 
> Such an event is taking place.  An official announcement should be
> possible in a few days.  Unofficial details have already been circulated
> informally.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
> 
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