Bug#547350: ITP: sinfo -- Monitoring tool for computer clusters using broadcasts

[Manuel Prinz <manuel@debian.org>]

Am Sonntag, den 20.09.2009, 16:32 +0200 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin:
> I'll write to the upstream author about the nameing conflict.

Thanks for taking care of this!

> The best way to go would be to rename the upstream package. What's the
> purpose of the sinfo binary in the slurm-llnl package? If it has the
> same or a very similar purpose and interface, an alternative would be
> another possibility. 

Alternatives should only be used if they provide the same interface
(like command line parameters) for the same job. This does not seem to
be the case. sinfo in SLURM gives information about the host states,
such as allocation. This is only information about the host state inside
of the SLURM resource manager, not a performance monitor of host
resources like CPU or memory. (Which is what the ANT sinfo shows, AFAIU.
I have not looked deeply into it yet, but it's a very interesting
package. :))

> In the mean time until this is sorted out, I'll rename the binaries to
> sinfo-ant. 

That would be good. I personally do not have a better solution at hand,
maybe Gennaro know one.

I do not know if you're interested to join the Debian Scientific
Computing Team (pkg-scicomp on Alioth) but I think sinfo-ant would fit
into that scope.

Best regards
Manuel