Kusu/OCS related topics
On Friday we reached another milestone by tagging version 0.2_devel of the Kusu Cluster Toolkit Installer. To share our progress with you we prepared a screencast of the installer in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJEZcMgHVF4 You can also download the screencast in OGG format (720×480, 23MB).
Updated April 12th, 2008 at 05:22 PM by mikem
Our Kusu installer keeps growing, and so does the list of dependencies. Most recently we added an RPM Python library. I never thought I’d need RPM on my Gentoo system The latest stable version in Portage (app-arch/rpm-4.4.6-r3) seems to work just fine. I also (finally) got around to submitting the ebuild for pyparted to Gentoo’s bugzilla. It’s my first ebuild, so I’m keen to find out how I did
The team does their development on Fedora Core 6. I run Gentoo on my notebook, which is great for ssh-ing into my workstation and VMs to develop. When working from home I get less-than-optimal latency to the office. And my ssh sessions get disconnect after 30-minutes of inactivity, a mild annoyance when some of my windows disconnect while I’m intensely hacking away. I decided to get the development environment set up on my Gentoo machine. This has led me to explore some of the requirements ...
Updated April 12th, 2008 at 05:16 PM by mikem
You can find the Intel Software Tools Rolls as well as the Lustre and the Warewulf Rolls here. These rolls are supported on Rocks 4.1 as well as Platform OCS 4.1.1. Be sure to post any issues on the support list found on that page too.
Updated April 10th, 2008 at 10:24 AM by najib