No kidding! ;-) lol -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Leo Pleiman Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 2:08 PM To: linux clustering Subject: Re: Fwd: cluster post 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@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 > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
