[ogb-discuss] Proposal for HA Clusters Community

[Nicholas Solter]

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