Hi Nicholas,
The HA Clusters Community was voted on at today's OGB meeting, and was
unanimously approved by all 7 OGB members.
cheers,
steve
Nicholas Solter wrote:
> Following is a proposal for an HA Clusters community on opensolaris.org.
>
> Name:
>
> ?HA Clusters?
>
> Background:
>
> High-Availability (HA) Clusters are a class of tightly-coupled
> distributed systems that provide high availability of services through
> hardware and software monitoring and hardware redundancy. HA Clusters
> are often closely associated with the underlying operating system, and
> in many cases can be considered extensions of the OS. For example,
> approximately one half of the Solaris Cluster code runs in the Solaris
> kernel.
>
> Focus and Scope:
>
> The scope of the community will be implementations, ideas, innovations,
> and research around high-availability clusters on the OpenSolaris
> platform. This scope includes, but is not limited to, such areas as core
> technologies (eg. heartbeats, quorum, filesystems), APIs, system
> administration, application support code (agents), and test frameworks.
> Although the focus is on clusters for high-availability, as opposed to
> HPC clusters, grids, or other cluster technologies, we recognize that
> there is often overlap between the technologies for different kinds of
> clusters, and will not discourage fruitful conversations and projects as
> long as they relate to high availability.
>
> Initial Contributions:
>
> Sun Microsystems will contribute to the community the source code for
> Solaris Cluster, Sun's commercial HA Cluster product group, under the
> name ?Open High Availability Cluster.? This contribution will start at
> the time of community formation with the Sun Cluster Agents source for a
> wide portfolio of applications. A Sun Cluster Agent provides the ?glue?
> to allow an off-the-shelf application to run with high-availability on
> Sun Cluster software.
>
> Nominating Members:
>
> Bonnie Corwin
> Sara Dornsife
> Mike Kupfer
> Liane Praza
>
> Initial Contributors (all from Sun Microsystems):
>
> Nicholas Solter
> Suraj Verma
> Jonathan Mellors
> Prasad Dharmavaram
> Swathi Devulapalli
> Madhan Kumar Balasubramian
> Venkat Chennuru
> Subhadeep Sinha
> Lisa Shepherd
> Thelan Nguyen
> Lingling Chyu
> Sekhar Lakkapragada
> Meenakshi Kaul-Basu
> Thorsten Frueauf
> Neil Garthwaite
> Jatin Jhala
> Tim Read
> Detlef Ulherr
> Bob Bart
> Ashutosh Tripathi
> Hemachandran Namachivayam
>
>
> Initial Facilitator:
>
> Nicholas Solter
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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