[Linux-cluster] Fwd: cluster post

[Leo Pleiman]

Private email?!

I don't think anything is private in this digital world.

Christopher Hawkins wrote:
> Wow. Sorry all - I didn't mean to offend Shawn. I have been on this list for
> years and have only mailed 2 people from it (isplist at logicore - hi Mike!) to
> ask for ideas on what I'm working on. Shawn, you owe me an apology - telling
> the world what I sent you in a private email is pretty bad. You simply
> sounded like someone who would be a good tester for what I'm working on, and
> I was hoping you'd be interested. Also, Mike - I'm closer now to a beta if
> you want to do any testing with us. Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Hood
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:34 PM
> To: linux-cluster at redhat.com
> Subject: [Linux-cluster] Fwd: cluster post
>
> You guys may want to unsubscribe this fellow.  He spammed me after my first
> post to the mailing list.
>
> Shawn
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christopher Hawkins <chawkins at bplinux.com>
> Date: Nov 16, 2007 5:03 PM
> Subject: RE: cluster post
> To: shawnlhood at gmail.com
>
>
> Hello Shawn,
>
> I saw your post on RedHat's mailing list. You are exactly the kind of
> professional we're looking for!
>
> I'm a network engineer who specializes in Linux clusters, and for years I
> have been doing projects just like the one you described in your post. About
> two years ago I decided to develop my own compilation of cluster tools
> because the existing technology left a lot to be desired... sparse
> documentation, trying to get code from 5 different projects to work
> together, no unified control interface, etc. I'm sure you know the headaches
> I'm talking about. :-)
>
> We're a couple months from having a beta version ready for testing, and we
> are looking for feedback from potential resellers and customers. Can we have
> a discussion about whether this cluster software would work for you? It's a
> shared root, load balanced, highly available cluster that can automatically
> scale itself it up and down in response to demand by PXE booting additional
> diskless nodes. New nodes take about 60 seconds from power-on to joining the
> load balancing pool, with no local configuration on the node at all. There
> is simply no faster or easier way to scale a cluster.
>
> No SAN is required, it does everything over gigabit ethernet. It has
> web-based graphical monitoring and configuration, does email notification
> for significant events, can run most standard linux services (anything IP
> based - we are focusing on Tomcat clusters at first, but it will work for
> email, web, etc. just fine), is compatible with virtualization, and is
> distribution / kernel agnostic; no kernel patches here. While we are
> standardizing on RedHat / Centos and IBM hardware, there is nothing
> preventing this from running on any normal platform. The cluster is designed
> to compete with big iron solutions at a fraction of the price, and to be a
> huge scalability and ease of use improvement over something like RH Cluster
> Suite. We would sell the software pre-installed on a single or dual (for
> high availability) master node and then you can scale it up with as many
> child nodes as you want (gig-e being the limiting factor in large
> deployments, but we are infiniband compatible as well).
>
> Can't wait to hear back from you and see what you think about it - we are
> hoping to find some resellers who want to partner up early and exchange
> product feedback for generous reseller discounts and the opportunity to
> influence the design of the system. If there are features you want or need,
> or if we can make it easier for you to sell this to your customers in any
> way, we want to hear about it so we can design it in for you.
>
> Thank you for your time, Shawn. Look forward to your response!
>
> Chris Hawkins
> President, Bulletproof Linux
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Hood
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:59 PM
> To: linux-cluster at redhat.com
> Subject: [Linux-cluster] howdy
>
> Hey folks,
>
> Just thought I'd introduce myself.  I found this list while perusing some
> information RHCS/GFS.  I figured that it would behoove me to join up,
> especially as many of my upcoming projects are HA cluster related.
>  I recently relocated to the DC metro area from Chapel Hill.  I was working
> in blade development at IBM in RTP.  I now work for a small consulting firm
> and service a number of clients with Linux infrastructures.
>
> That said, my primary client is a medical coding application service
> provider that is doing some really fascinating stuff involving natural
> language processing.  These NLP applications are very computationally
> expensive--cpu, memory, STORAGE.  My current project is implement GFS across
> multiple Dell PowerEdges running RHEL4.4/4.5/5, connecting to 3 Apple
> xraids, and soon a larger first-tier storage device.  Upcoming projects
> include implementing clustering to provide redundancy for critical
> applications (e-mail, jabber, JBoss, etc), across two datacenters (our
> corporate HQ and Rackspace).
>
> Anyhow, you guys will probably be seeing some traffic from me.  I guess I'll
> go ahead a question:  Are there any must-reads (apart from the sparse RH
> documentation) related to RHCS/GFS?  Are there any books that are imperative
> reads on the concepts of highly-available infrastructure?
>
> Shawn Hood
>
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