On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:53:49 -0500 james wrote: > OK, I'll give that a whirl. But if I want to go casually looking at old > codes, removed from the tree, that I have never used before, but are > vaguely referred to in some old post, how do I do that with git? > For example, I have conversed on numerous occasions with the old physics > professor that wrote sys-cluster/wulfware. We have prospectives that are > similar. Although he does not actively, at this time, support wulfware, > he has architected a more conservative approach to HPC than many of the > current, more-prominent projects. He has quite a proposal for me to > move the code forward, should I want to take it over. Yet, a > tree-cleaner probably has marked it for removal. > > Old code is often wonderful, ymmv. It's old school, 'C' centric and > there are many other old useful codes. Not that this reference is any > big deal, but there is a lot more than me out there with similar > beliefs. It's exciting to see something old (PVM) return in part as a > new project (OrangeFS). Oh, OrangeFS is all the new-rage with some HPC > folks and it making a return via kernel-4.6 (I believe).
Yeah, OrangeFS is a fascinating project. We used it on our HPC cluster, but had some stability issues. There is orangefs-2.9_beta20130530-r1 ebuild available in my overlay (as well as for some older versions). It is outdated and will not work on kernels > 3.4, but fuse client can be used. The most pain to support this package was out-of-tree kernel module. Its inclusion into 4.6 kernel is a really great achievment of OrangeFS team. So I have plans to update it to 2.9.5 and include in the tree. If gods will bless me with more spare time :) Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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