I'd like to announce that the PDSI/SciDAC [0] project has as one of its goals to support HPC I/O file system packages for Operating Systems that aren't currently supported by the developers. Some of the results of this goal are in a debian repository on the PDSI/SciDAC page [1]. Ideally these packages would not stay there for long and be integrated into mainline debian distribution. However, I'm sure that some of the packages can't be integrated due to debian policies.
So here's a run-down of what's available so far and what I'd like to see happen. PVFS [2] is a parallel virtual file system developed by The Parallel Architecture Research Laboratory at Clemson University and The Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, at least that's what their website says ;). I've developed packages for pvfs and posted a couple of times to the debian-mentors mailing list about it and it would be great if someone could pick it up and put these packages into the debian unstable distribution. Lustre [3] is a parallel file system that's already in debian unstable however is very out of date and the above repository contains updated versions built against lenny. Since CFS doesn't have any goals for maintaining lustre against the vanilla kernel they probably won't touch 2.6.21 for a while. These I wouldn't expect to just jump right into lenny and etch, that probably violates some debian policy somewhere. Please let me know if you have any comments, suggestions or problems. Thanks, - David Brown [0] http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/ [1] http://www.pdsi-scidac.org/repository/debian/index.html [2] http://www.pvfs.org/ [3] http://www.lustre.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
