i watch the ganglia stats all the time. to be honest, sometimes when i'm feeling a bit burn out they push me (further into burnout?:)) to keep going. it's nice to know there are people out there that appreciate our work.
if you look at the ganglia sourceforge project page https://sourceforge.net/projects/ganglia/ halfway down the page you'll see our activity percentile for the week and a hyperlink for detailed statistics. while we are in the top 500 projects on sourceforge out of 47,662 it's important to know that we are consistently in the top 5 projects for "Clustering" and "Distributed Computing". you can expect to see our rank rise for a while given our 2.5.0 release. if you look at our monthly stats, you'll see that we have about 10,000 page views and 2000 downloads per month. that's pretty amazing i think.. that's about 60 or so downloads a day.. everyday. we have almost 200 people on our announce mailing list and freshmeat project page who are mailed during a release. these 200 contacts represent groups like Sandia, the U.S. Navy, Dow Chemical, Mandrake, Dell, Duke, nVidia, CalTech, BellSouth, NASA, Xerox, SuSE Linux, Compaq, IBM, Brookhaven .. just to name a few. when i have a chance i might put out the complete list of ganglia groups. it'll hopefully help you see what an impact you guys are making on the world. you'd be amazed how many commercial groups bundle up ganglia into their cluster/grid stuff. i've updated the demo page to include the Planet Lab group. if you take a look at http://www.planet-lab.org/ganglia.beta/ . they are using ganglia to link together over a hundred sites around the world. right now, they have 36 groups connected in 4 different countries: U.S.A, U.K., Italy and Denmark. their page clearly demonstrates the international reach of ganglia. btw, the planet lab guys are here in berkeley (intel research). the director of the cluster research at berkeley (dave culler) is also the big toe of the planet lab operation. that's the connection. the planet lab guys have stress-tested ganglia releases before they go out the door. i guess all i'm trying to say is... your work is important and i'm happy to have gotten to know you guys. we need to get together sometime if we can .. either by video conference or physically meeting. -matt Friday, Steven Wagner wrote forth saying... > According to the sourceforge project page (why am I checking the > sourceforge project page? .......... no reason. :) ), we're in the 94.685th > percentile of activity. Or, to put it another way, the Ganglia project is > the 507th most active project on Sourceforge. > > We are just behind the Linux NTFS support project, Polish Mozilla, LIRC and > GCC for PalmOS. We edged out a filtering proxy server and BibleTime, a > bible study tool for linux. And we're totally *destroying* Tux Racer and > Dopewars... :P > > Anyway, it's Friday and I thought some of you might get a kick out of that. ;) > > So congratulations, everyone, on getting us up to this lofty level of > achievement. > > (*cough* Since there's nothing else I could congratulate you all about ... > why, what'd you think I was going to congratulate you all on?) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Ganglia-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers >
