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@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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shawn Hood Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:34 PM To: linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Nov 16, 2007 5:03 PM Subject: RE: cluster post To: shawnlhood@xxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shawn Hood Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:59 PM To: linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: 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 -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Shawn Hood (910) 670-1819 Mobile -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
