Thanks, Stephen. One question: Am I supposed to send an announcement to opensolaris-announce when the community goes live? I remember reading that somewhere (and that seems to be what others have done), but now I can't find any mention of it.
Thanks, Nick Stephen Lau wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> ogb-discuss mailing list >> ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > > -- Nicholas Solter, Solaris Cluster Development http://blogs.sun.com/nsolter
