Hi, I strongly encourage you to send us your application (directly or on the mailing list). Doing so, it will be easy for us to give you feedback (it is not quite enough to say "i want to work on this project", we need to have a little bit more details about how you envision the project).
At least DongInn and I are interested by IPMI support (we spoke about management issues during the last OSCAR meeting). Regards, Selon abshnasko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Geoffroy - > > When I read the project outline, I was thinking about more of the management > aspect of it. Also, making it easily manageable and user-configurable sort > of paves the way for an automated FT system, as opposed to implementing the > automated system first and the management interface later. I built an OSCAR > cluster for our fluid dynamics lab, and everything went very smoothly. OSCAR > really is a great system, which is why I chose your organization to apply > with. I would like to help, and with GSoC I would have the resources to be > able to work on helping out the OSCAR community full-time over the next > several months. > > That being said, I would really appreciate any help you all can provide. I > am still in the process of doing research on the IPMI spec and trying to > figure out the best approach to implementing this idea before I write my > proposal. If anyone has any thoughts, suggestions, etc, all are welcome. > > I look forward to working on this project. I have a few smaller ideas that I > would like to see put into practice in OSCAR as well, and hopefully this > will mark the beginning of me becoming a regular contributor to the > organization. > > - Travis W. > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I second what was said: there is no point to try to rewrite what is > > already done > > by someone. I also would like to go further in the discussion: what do we > > have > > IMPI for? is it for the implementation of a pseudo fault tolerance (FT) > > mechanism (we detect that a failure failed, we assume we have a checkpoint > > of > > the running apps, we restart the node w/ IPMI, and then we restart the > > node)? or > > is it for management purpose (i know the node is down, i want to put it be > > online in order to check the logs and the system)? > > > > I think the ultimate goal will change deeply what needs to be done. In > > fact i > > think that if we do not have such an ultimate goal, the GSoC project will > > never > > be really used by the OSCAR community. And it is also clear that if you > > place > > the IPMI in the context of such a goal, a lot has to be done (but i think > > it > > will be a very interesting project). > > > > For example: > > - if we decide to implement some kind of FT mechanism, we need to design a > > global architecture to deal with any kind of failures (even if everything > > won't > > need to be done in that project). We also have to see how that will > > interact > > with HA-OSCAR, > > - if we decide to focus only on the management aspect, we will have to > > come up > > with an idea of what means management in OSCAR (we actually spoke about > > that > > during the OSCAR meeting few weeks ago, i think we have some ideas on the > > topic). The current OSCAR architecture is very naive to deal with the > > management > > issues. > > > > Personally i like the management issues and if someone is selected to work > > on > > that i will be happy to participate in the mentoring effort. And according > > to > > me, all IPMI project will be a difficult but interesting task because IMPI > > by > > itself is not interesting; the way we are using IPMI is interesting. > > > > My 2 cents, > > > > Selon Paul Greidanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > abshnasko wrote: > > > > Hi, I am a student interested in undertaking your IPMI feature > > > > implementation. I have done my research on this topic and I have > > experience > > > > with OSCAR, but before I begin the proposal I have a question: > > > > > > > > Am I allowed to use other freely available code or software products > > to > > > > accomplish this project? For example, a good GNU IPMI framework called > > > > FreeIPMI is available, and my current plan is to base my > > implementation off > > > > of their framework. Is this allowed, or does my final product need to > > be > > > > 100% original? Let me know. > > > > > > Hi Travis, > > > > > > Every piece of Oscar is imported from other projects, with OSCAR being > > > the glue to put them together. In light of this statement, I'm pretty > > > sure that using ipmitool, or freeimpi would be a very good place to > > > work. There is enough other work involved with getting it integrated > > > "properly" into OSCAR, that rewriting the ipmi tool would be a waste of > > > time. For example, adding the MAC addresses for the IMPI cards into the > > > oscar database, and setting up username/password pairs for them all. > > > > > > However, making it compartmentalized enough so that someone can choose > > > between impitool and freeimpi would be useful. > > > > > > One thing that isn't in the SoC description, is possibly setting up > > > watchdog timers on the BMC/IPMI cards if they are available.. > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > > Defy all challenges. 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