[cgl_discussion] ANNOUNCE: OSDL Clusters (foundational components)

John Cherry cherry at osdl.org
Wed Nov 26 13:07:47 PST 2003


This announcement will go out to the linux-kernel mailing list on
Monday.  This is an OSDL pre-announcement.

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OSDL is pleased to announce the kickoff of the foundational components
defined in the OSDL Cluster Architecture.  The foundational components
include a connectivity/communication service (TIPC), a membership 
service, and a publish/subscribe event service.

The connectivity/communication service (TIPC) and the membership 
service will be Linux kernel modules.  The proof of concept for the 
event service will be initially implemented as a user space deamon.  
Both the membership service and the event service are being developed 
to conform to the SAF-AIS specification.  Early releases of these 
services will be a subset of the full SAF-AIS interface 
specifications.

These foundational cluster projects will not produce a full cluster 
implementation.  The intent is to enable the Linux OS as a 
"clusterable kernel".  With these foundational services enabled, 
when a kernel boots on a system on a network, the system would 
become part of the cluster.  The cluster is defined by locality on 
the network.  Applications and other cluster services (checkpointing,
resource managegers, etc.) would simply subscribe to membership events.

Documents and project pages:

  OSDL Cluster project page: 
    http://developer.osdl.org/dev/osdlclusters/

 OSDL Cluster Architecture: 
    http://developer.osdl.org/dev/osdlclusters/OSDL-cluster.html

 TIPC project page:
    http://developer.osdl.org/dev/tipc/OSDL_tipc.html

 Membership service project page:
    http://developer.osdl.org/daniel/cluster_membership/OSDL_mem.html

 Event service project page:
    http://developer.osdl.org/markh/cluster_event/OSDL_ces.html

 SAF Application Interface Specification:
    http://www.saforum.org/specification

A single mailing list will be used for all of the projects
(osdlcluster at osdl.org).  To sign up for the mailing list go to 
http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/osdlcluster

John Cherry
Mika Kukkonen
Daniel McNeil
Mark Haverkamp

Open Source Development Labs 
  www.osdl.org
  developer.osdl.org





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