[ogb-discuss] Proposal for HA Clusters Community

[Nicholas Solter]

Thanks, Stephen. One question: Am I supposed to send an announcement to 
opensolaris-announce when the community goes live? I remember reading 
that somewhere (and that seems to be what others have done), but now I 
can't find any mention of it.

Thanks,
Nick

Stephen Lau wrote:
> Hi Nicholas,
>     The HA Clusters Community was voted on at today's OGB meeting, and 
> was unanimously approved by all 7 OGB members.
> 
> cheers,
> steve
> 
> Nicholas Solter wrote:
>> Following is a proposal for an HA Clusters community on opensolaris.org.
>>
>> Name:
>>
>> “HA Clusters”
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> High-Availability (HA) Clusters are a class of tightly-coupled 
>> distributed systems that provide high availability of services through 
>> hardware and software monitoring and hardware redundancy. HA Clusters 
>> are often closely associated with the underlying operating system, and 
>> in many cases can be considered extensions of the OS. For example, 
>> approximately one half of the Solaris Cluster code runs in the Solaris 
>> kernel.
>>
>> Focus and Scope:
>>
>> The scope of the community will be implementations, ideas, 
>> innovations, and research around high-availability clusters on the 
>> OpenSolaris platform. This scope includes, but is not limited to, such 
>> areas as core technologies (eg. heartbeats, quorum, filesystems), 
>> APIs, system administration, application support code (agents), and 
>> test frameworks. Although the focus is on clusters for 
>> high-availability, as opposed to HPC clusters, grids, or other cluster 
>> technologies, we recognize that there is often overlap between the 
>> technologies for different kinds of clusters, and will not discourage 
>> fruitful conversations and projects as long as they relate to high 
>> availability.
>>
>> Initial Contributions:
>>
>> Sun Microsystems will contribute to the community the source code for 
>> Solaris Cluster, Sun's commercial HA Cluster product group, under the 
>> name “Open High Availability Cluster.” This contribution will start at 
>> the time of community formation with the Sun Cluster Agents source for 
>> a wide portfolio of applications. A Sun Cluster Agent provides the 
>> “glue” to allow an off-the-shelf application to run with 
>> high-availability on Sun Cluster software.
>>
>> Nominating Members:
>>
>> Bonnie Corwin
>> Sara Dornsife
>> Mike Kupfer
>> Liane Praza
>>
>> Initial Contributors (all from Sun Microsystems):
>>
>> Nicholas Solter
>> Suraj Verma
>> Jonathan Mellors
>> Prasad Dharmavaram
>> Swathi Devulapalli
>> Madhan Kumar Balasubramian
>> Venkat Chennuru
>> Subhadeep Sinha
>> Lisa Shepherd
>> Thelan Nguyen
>> Lingling Chyu
>> Sekhar Lakkapragada
>> Meenakshi Kaul-Basu
>> Thorsten Frueauf
>> Neil Garthwaite
>> Jatin Jhala
>> Tim Read
>> Detlef Ulherr
>> Bob Bart
>> Ashutosh Tripathi
>> Hemachandran Namachivayam
>>
>>
>> Initial Facilitator:
>>
>> Nicholas Solter
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
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> 

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Nicholas Solter, Solaris Cluster Development
http://blogs.sun.com/nsolter