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From: wernerkrebs <wer...@ya...> - 2002-08-20 16:05:52
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Good news! Mike Castle (da...@ix...) has volunteered to become the new GNU Queue maintainer! GNU Queue is once again an active project! >From his homepage (www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/) it sounds like he is a very competent system administrator, so I think we are in very good hands here and look forward to seeing what Mike can and will do with GNU Queue. I suppose the thing to say right off the bat is that I'm not sure how familar Mike will be with some of the discussions I've had on and off-line with many of you regarding GQ's features. There have been some widely differing opinions. The Debian people, for example, stress reliability and low-latency (which we tried to do when go rid of the NFS protocol). Other people would like a very simple project (perhaps even a shell script). Others want interactive load balancing and minimal end-user training via the proxy interface (our strong point). Others wanted installation by non-root users. The Internet Draft people wanted an Internet-wide protocol that would be highly scalable, be IPv6 compatible and work across NAT boxes (and this can be to some extent because we have a peer-to-peer protocol; if it's made non-deterministic and keeps track of its network neighbor's responses, it can be made extremely scalable. Going across NAT boxes with IPv4 is another matter, although that can be tackled as well. The Texas Instrument/Alantro people wanted centralized control, and they wanted a client-server and SQL-database protocol, which they added but which hasn't been popular. Some people wanted Free process migration in various forms, which we added. Others have complained about the documentation and how that should look. And so on. So, I hope you'll get Mike up to speed with your latest opinions on what GQ should look like going into the future as I think that will be a tremendous help to him. Mike ... take it from here! -- Werner G. Krebs, Ph.D. Postgraduate Researcher Integrative Biosciences San Diego Supercomputer Center MC 0527 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0527, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com |
From: wernerkrebs <wer...@ya...> - 2002-06-18 18:58:38
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Dear GNU Queue community, It has been a great pleasure serving as your maintainer. It has been a rewarding although very time-consuming activity. Recently, I've made the decision more or less to stop supporting Queue, at least for now, because of job responsibilities in the real world and lack of time. A number of non-commercial and commercial packages use GNU Queue for load-balancing facilities. If you require support for GNU Queue in connection with these packages, I suggest you contact the distributors of these packages for support with GNU Queue. There are a number of other excellent load-balancing and process migration packages available that are Open Source or quasi-Open Source. These include GNQS, Mosix, Condor, as well as a number of load-balancing packages available from the San Diego Supercomputer Center. If you know of any one interested who might make a good maintainer for GNU Queue, please let me know. In the meantime, please check out the discussions on Sourceforge; there are some members of the community supporting GNU Queue. http://www.gnuqueue.org. -- Werner G. Krebs, Ph.D., Integrative Biosciences, San Diego Supercomputer Center MC 0527 University of California, San Diego MC 0527 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0527, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com |
From: W. G. K. <wer...@ya...> - 2000-11-01 21:00:08
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As you may know, the Novemeber issue of Linux Journal has an article on GNU Queue, http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue79/4208.html . Since the LJ article, GNU Queue 1.30.1 has come out, http://www.gnuqueue.org . This adds a major package courtesy of folks at Texas Instruments (Monica Lau) that allows centralized management of Queue processes via a centralized daemon and control utilities. Because the new code is only in beta testing, the default is not to compile this new package in. "./configure --enable-manager=YES" will cause the new package to be compiled in. 1.30.1 also incorporates a fix for RedHat 7.0 over 1.20.2. The 1.20 versions eliminated the NFS protocol, and are using a TCP/IP protocol that is much closer to that described in the internet draft, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-krebs-gnuqueue-protocol-00.txt Please see the ChangeLog associated with the download file on http://www.gnuqueue.org for more information about the new version. |