[CI] CI and SSI project status and ongoing projects

[b***@kahuna.cag.cpqcorp.net]

Speak up if you want more detail or have other projects that you want to do or think
need doing, etc.


CI PROJECTS WITH AVAILABLE VERSIONS:

A: Membership (Kai-Min)
B: Internode Communcation (Kai-Min)

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CI PROJECTS ONGOING:

C1: Integration of CI with DLM (Aneesh)
C2: Clusters across subnets (Kai-Min)

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CI PROJECTS NOT YET ONGOING:

A: Membership:
A1: enforce membership via node numbers and/or IP/MAC addresses
A2: integration with STOMITH
A3: Quorum integration
A4: Split brain detection/avoidance

B: Internode Communcation:
B1: dual path interconnect with transparent failover;
B2: Infiniband interconnect;
B3: Other interconnects

D: Integration of CI with Heartbeat
E: Integration of CI with DRBD
F: Integration of CI with Beowulf
G: Integration of CI with EVM
H: Integration of CI with UML
I: Convert code to be dynamically added modules


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SSI PROJECTS WITH AVAILABLE VERSIONS:

I: See CI projects with available versions
II: Open GFS (David)
III: Clusterwide devices (John)
IV: Access to remote objects via remote fileblock (Brian)
V: Installation and booting (Brian)
VI: Clusterwide process management and process movement (Laura)
VII: LVS integraion (Kai-Min)
VIII: UML integration (Kitrick)
IX: clusterwide message queues (Laura)
X: clusterwide pipes and fifos (Brian)
XI: clusterwide sockets (Brian)
XII: GNDB integration (John)
XIII: port to alpha (Aneesh)
XIV: Loadleveling of processes (Laura)

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SSI PROJECTS ONGOING:

I: See CI projects ongoing
- integration of CI with DLM (Aneesh)
- clusters across subnets
III: further work on clusterwide devices (John)
V: refinement of installation and booting (Brian)
VI: clusterwide /proc for processes (Laura)
VII: HA LVS (Kai)
XI: more work on clusterwide sockets (Brian)
XV: clusterwide timesync/ NTP (Roopesh)
XVI: clusterwide semaphores (Roopesh)
XVII: integration with Samba (John)
XVIII: CFS (David and ...)


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SSI PROJECTS NOT YET ONGOING:

I: See CI projects not yet ongoing
II: Integration of openGFS with DLM?
XIX: port to IA-64
XX: Scale to 100s of nodes
XXI: Hooks in Linux 2.5
XXII: Socket and other object migration
XXIII: bProc library for SSI clusters
XXIV: performance and monitoring tools
XXV: clusterwide run levels

[Brian J. Watson]

Post by b***@kahuna.cag.cpqcorp.net
Speak up if you want more detail or have other projects that you want to do or think
need doing, etc.

I've put Bruce's lists up on the websites.