[hpcdev-discuss] HPC stack project proposal

[Bruce Rothermal]

This is really great to hear. We got the blank page for the starting of 
an HPC stack project set up yesterday. We are just adding the basic 
project info and should make the page visible for all to join within the 
week. Look for more on the hpcdev-discuss at opensolaris.org mail alias.

Bruce


Melvin Koh wrote:
> Hi Josh, all,
>
> I work for Simon See and we have a group here in Singapore that do a 
> lot of Solaris porting work and we have a project call 
> Bio-ClusterGrid, a Bio HPC bundle with grid portal, SGE and opensource 
> bio-apps etc, aimed to ease the deployment of a cluster. We would 
> certainly like to contribute to this project.
>
> As a sidenote, will we be looking at IPS for this?
>
> Josh Simons wrote:
>> I spoke with Simon See about this last week. There may be some 
>> people  who can
>> help with this.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Bruce Rothermal wrote:
>>> According to Sun Freeware there is a ganglia 3.0.5 for solaria X86  
>>> port already done. So it doesn't seem like that should be to much 
>>> or  a problem. All we need now is someone to work it. Anyone willing 
>>> to  take a look at it and possibly integrate it when we get the HPC  
>>> Stack project page and source online?
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
>>>
>>> Melvin Koh wrote:
>>>> Hi Bruce,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to add Ganglia into the mix. Also, while it is good 
>>>> to  have the tools integrated, I would also like to see a slim and 
>>>> lean  distro with all the unnecessary stuff removed.
>>>>
>>>> Bruce Rothermal wrote:
>>>>> The first distro will be a developer preview release to show how  
>>>>> all the tools and systems work together. This will be a single  
>>>>> machine install which is mainly for demonstration of how all the  
>>>>> components work together. The stack install will install and  
>>>>> configure all components made as easy as possible for the  
>>>>> installer. First Preview ~ 2 months
>>>>>
>>>>> Components to be included in first Preview
>>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>>> Development Components
>>>>> Sunstudio and Netbeans (Provides C/C++, fortran and Java  
>>>>> compilers, debuggers, etc)
>>>>>   We are currently looking at a netbeans pluggin module to 
>>>>> provide  integrated MPI development within the Sunstudio/Netbeans 
>>>>> IDE.
>>>>>
>>>>> HPC clustertools
>>>>>
>>>>> Grid Engine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ******************************
>>>>> Are there other tools/programs you would like to see included?  
>>>>> This is everyones chance to speakup and say what would make this  
>>>>> stack be what you want it to be.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bruce Rothermal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Selim Daoud wrote:
>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> have you got a list of tools/prog that this HPC stack would  
>>>>>> include?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Bruce Rothermal
>>>>>> <Bruce.Rothermal at sun.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We would like to propose an opensolaris HPC stack project. This  
>>>>>>> project
>>>>>>> will provide automated ease of installation and configuration of
>>>>>>> programs, development tools, libraries and functionality needed to
>>>>>>> represent an integrated HPC system on opensolaris.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> HPC Developer Stack Group
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>
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