Sounds good, That makes four people so far. If other people are interested, let's figure out the best way to keep the community informed. We can setup a Fedora meeting on IRC, but there's no formal SIG yet. Thanks, Shawn. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Che > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:52 AM > To: fedora-nightlife-list; Shawn Starr > Subject: Re: [Fedora-nightlife-list] Some initial discussions of a > Fedora HPC SIG > > > Hi Shawn, I'd be interested. > > Bryan > > Shawn Starr wrote: > > (This was also sent to fedora-devel-list) > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > There is talk of creating a HPC SIG that will focus on > making Fedora HPC/Grid/Cluster ready. It would be great to > find out who in Fedora is interested in beginning some discussions. > > > > Here's some of my own questions to add to the mix: > > > > - How can we make Anaconda support different interconnects? > > > > - How do we handle HPC/Grid needs which differ from > traditional systems? Using puppet, others? > > * Should we provide 'sane' defaults needed within a HPC > environment out of the box? > > * Addon packages to modify configurations of other packages? > > > > - Which job submission/batch schedulers? more choice is better. > > > > - Full OFED integration (Doug Ledford has been working on this) > > > > - Provisioning: Multiple methods for provisioning? > > * Cobbler, Spacewalk, other open source mechanisms? > > > > - Packaging of HPC applications/libs > > * Open MPI, MPICH1/MPICH2?, MVAPICH1/MVAPICH2? > > * Directory structure - FHS > > * Using environment-modules or alternatives to allow > users to switch between different MPIs etc. > > > > - Package Optimization > > * A lot of people tend to want highly optimized packages > such as ATLAS and usually will recompile them against their > > new processors. Do we just settle on defaults, can't > satisfy all people. > > > > There are many more questions and getting some initial > discussions going will be beneficial to Fedora. > > > > -- > > Shawn Starr > > Software Developer, Open Source Grid Development Center (OSGDC) > > Platform Computing > > 3760 14th Avenue > > Markham, ON L3R3T7 > > direct: 905.948.4229 > > http://www.platform.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fedora-nightlife-list mailing list > > Fedora-nightlife-list > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-nightlife-list > > -- > Bryan Che > Red Hat, Inc. > 314 Littleton Rd > Westford, MA 01886 > 978-392-3107 > bche at redhat d0t com > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
