Hi Gennaro, On 7 March 2007 at 11:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Dirk, | sorry for quoting all your mail, I do it for Josselin convenience. If | you check the slurm-llnl ITP Bug report logs (351688) [Bug] you | will see that Joss has offered himself for sponsorship.
Ahh, I missed that. I saw Thijs response to your initial RFS, but not the ITP. Cool. | Anyway I'm still waiting for some feedback and help about my last | package version (especially about the /dev/random problem) and I don't | know if Joss is still interested in working on this. Let's take it off-line then. I used /dev/urandom in postinst for munge but then realized that you don't really need or want this as the crypto key is generated only once and then copied across the cluster. | | In general any comment about my package are welcome. At the moment I | have uploaded on my repository the version I'm using, but I can provide | an update version of the package soon. I'll have a look and maybe update my installation to your versions. | I'm happily working with munge and slurm on my debian cluster and | I would like to see it uploaded to the main distribution and to | contribute to this. Thanks for your interest Same here. Thanks for your work on this -- we'll have slurm and munge in Debian before long. Dirk | | Gennaro | | [Bug] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351688 | | On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:40:10PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > Hi all, | > | > Last August, I started a short discussion here regarding batch management / | > queue / scheduler / resource managment software for cluster computing. I | > already mentioned slumrm [1] and munge [2]. The conclusion then was | > unsatisfying -- we don't have anything in Debian. At the time, I was unaware | > of Gennaro Oliva's mail to debian-mentors [3] and his package snapshots. | > | > To cut a long story short, I built two crude packages today I would like to | > offer for co-maintenance. Given my existing 80-some Debian packages, I really | > shouldn't take any more on. The crude packages will do for work, so if | > nobody has time or energy to pick them up ... I won't push the issue either. | > Because the packages deal with resources, authentication, ... they are not | > exactly trivial and would need some tender love and care to be done real | > well. They mostly autoconf fine, esp munge. Slurm needs a replacement | > scripts for /etc/init.d, a few contributed manual pages but nothing major. | > | > That said, I think it would be worth it. I am quite impressed with slurm. | > For a quick overview, see the website [1] and e.g. the recent presentation | > from 2006 [4] . Slurm is under active development and just released 1.2.1, | > it now even has a nice little gtk-based gui. [ Munge is used by slurm and is | > a smaller/simpler package. It already detects Debian in its init.d script and | > does The Right Thing. ] | > | > Gennaro: Are you still interested in working on this? I could possibly act | > as mentor and 'final compiler / uploader'. | > | > Anybody else working on clusters who needs a DFSG-free resource manager / | > scheduler? | > | > Dirk | > | > [1] http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/ | > [2] http://home.gna.org/munge/ -- but really also from llnl.gov | > [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/05/msg00020.html | > [4] http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/slurm_design.pdf | > | > -- | > Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. | > -- Thomas A. Edison -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
