2010/5/27 Carsten Aulbert
<carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de>
Hi Stefano et al.
[please cc me as well, as I'm not on d-science@l.d.o
Nice post and I can put a big tick behind any of the items, Debian is just
great although I'm not understanding why they need "calibre" instead of "pure"
Debian. I'm definitely interested in sharing knowledge with you/them/anyone.
I am also very interested into debian in cluster and scientific environments.
Although i am not really a debian hardcore specialist yet, and i am used to focus more on BSD systems for personal needs, debian is much more maistream, and more easily maintenable than BSD when it comes to large scale / distributed systems.
I worked previousy at EADS and Thales in France, on Linux for some researhc projects, and had to setup and manage a cluster of debian machines last year, for a MMO running in Brazil. So high performane, and very good reliability where both needed.
Best thing I ever used there is systemimager. Real Physical Machines could be backed up and restored in a matter of minutes, reliably and remotely.
But a the time i wish i had some big cluster achitecture exemple somewhere to follow. i would have probably had it ready for production faster...
> Related to that, I'm now collecting some feedback about other users of
> Debian in scientific computing / cluster environments. What would be the
> most appropriate venue to have people interested in that topic discuss
> together? Would this list be appropriate or should I rather request a
> new list, e.g. debian-hpc@lists.d.o, to replace the (long dead it seems)
> debian-beowulf@lists.d.o mailing list?
>
debian-hpc sounds nice, but I fear that it will eventually die as well as the
group of people is very, very small. But at least I think it's worth a try.
Cheers
Carsten
debian-hpc might be good, as well as debian-cluster also... I m thinking it might be more of a matter to make people aware of the existene of such possibilities with Linux, and a group of people already doing it and willing to share their knowledge and experience. What about a small website, like a wiki for everyone to share their architecture and setups for exemple ?? The NetBSD guys tried the idea with some success i think, despite the small size of the community. check
http://onetbsd.org. There is a "blog aggregator" also...
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