From sound.insulation at gmx.com Thu Mar 3 01:36:51 2011 From: sound.insulation at gmx.com (Ennes Sarradj) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:36:51 +0100 Subject: [Caos] Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please Message-ID: <20110303093651.123150@gmx.net> Hi, I noticed that the wiki at http://caoswiki.infiscale.org is subject to heavy spamming in the last days. As it appears that there are no new useful entries to this wiki anyway, could please someone enable a write-protect to save the wiki from further destruction. Regards, Enens From justin at infiscale.com Thu Mar 3 08:28:08 2011 From: justin at infiscale.com (Justin Brown) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:28:08 -0800 Subject: [Caos] Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please Message-ID: Thank you, Enens. MediaWiki is problematic for that sort of thing. I've fixed it for now. We are going to set up a new system for documentation for our open-source projects, including PERCEUS and GravityOS. Is anyone currently using Caos-NSA for a cluster deployment or a server project? I'm interested in knowing about Caos-NSA's use in the wild. Thanks. -Justin Brown. Ennes Sarradj wrote: >Hi, > >I noticed that the wiki at >http://caoswiki.infiscale.org >is subject to heavy spamming in the last days. > >As it appears that there are no new useful entries to this wiki anyway, could please someone enable a write-protect to save the wiki from further destruction. > >Regards, > >Enens >_______________________________________________ >Caos mailing list >Caos at lists.infiscale.org >http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos From sound.insulation at gmx.com Thu Mar 3 11:33:57 2011 From: sound.insulation at gmx.com (sound.insulation at gmx.com) Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:33:57 +0100 Subject: [Caos] Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110303193357.13350@gmx.net> Thank you very much for your quick reaction. We use Caos in a small Cluster in our Lab (1 Master + 7 diskless Nodes with 8 Cores each with Infiniband Interconnect). Perceus is used for node provision and Slurm for job management. The cluster runs several software codes such as OpenFOAM, EXA PowerFLOW, some more specific Finite-Element-Packages and others. Everything is stable and up since the last major power outage 5 months ago. The only thing that worries me a bit on the long run is security (no upgrades). Thanks again for Caos and Perceus, Ennes > Thank you, Enens. MediaWiki is problematic for that sort of thing. I've > fixed it for now. > > We are going to set up a new system for documentation for our open-source > projects, including PERCEUS and GravityOS. > > Is anyone currently using Caos-NSA for a cluster deployment or a server > project? I'm interested in knowing about Caos-NSA's use in the wild. > > Thanks. > > -Justin Brown. > > Ennes Sarradj wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I noticed that the wiki at > >http://caoswiki.infiscale.org > >is subject to heavy spamming in the last days. > > > >As it appears that there are no new useful entries to this wiki anyway, > could please someone enable a write-protect to save the wiki from further > destruction. > > > >Regards, > > > >Enens > >_______________________________________________ > >Caos mailing list > >Caos at lists.infiscale.org > >http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > _______________________________________________ > Caos mailing list > Caos at lists.infiscale.org > http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos From stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at Thu Mar 3 23:48:57 2011 From: stefan at mdy.univie.ac.at (Stefan Boresch) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:48:57 +0100 Subject: [Caos] Caos Usage [Re: Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please] In-Reply-To: <20110303193357.13350@gmx.net> References: <20110303193357.13350@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20110304074857.GQ23779@loop.mdy.univie.ac.at> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:33:57PM +0100, sound.insulation at gmx.com wrote: > > Is anyone currently using Caos-NSA for a cluster deployment or a server > > project? I'm interested in knowing about Caos-NSA's use in the wild. > > > > Thanks. > > We are using caos-nsa/perceus for a small cluster (master + 30 nodes). We plan a similar cluster soon, which most likely will be gravity-os/perceus. Any documentation would be vastly appreciated! Thanks for caos and perceus, Stefan -- Stefan Boresch Institute for Computational Biological Chemistry University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17 A-1090 Vienna, Austria Phone: -43-1-427752715 Fax: -43-1-427752790 From vcapece at engr.uky.edu Fri Mar 4 06:40:17 2011 From: vcapece at engr.uky.edu (Vince Capece) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:40:17 -0600 Subject: [Caos] Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000f01cbda7a$14b45920$3e1d0b60$@uky.edu> We are using caos-nsa/perceus for a small cluster at the University of Kentucky Extended Campus. Thank you for making caos-nsa/perceus available for us to use. Vince Capece Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Kentucky, Extended Campus P: (270) 534 - 3123 F: (270) 534 - 6292 E: vcapece at engr.uky.edu -----Original Message----- From: caos-bounces at lists.infiscale.org [mailto:caos-bounces at lists.infiscale.org] On Behalf Of Justin Brown Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:28 AM To: Caos Linux discussion and support forum Subject: Re: [Caos] Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please Thank you, Enens. MediaWiki is problematic for that sort of thing. I've fixed it for now. We are going to set up a new system for documentation for our open-source projects, including PERCEUS and GravityOS. Is anyone currently using Caos-NSA for a cluster deployment or a server project? I'm interested in knowing about Caos-NSA's use in the wild. Thanks. -Justin Brown. Ennes Sarradj wrote: >Hi, > >I noticed that the wiki at >http://caoswiki.infiscale.org >is subject to heavy spamming in the last days. > >As it appears that there are no new useful entries to this wiki anyway, could please someone enable a write-protect to save the wiki from further destruction. > >Regards, > >Enens >_______________________________________________ >Caos mailing list >Caos at lists.infiscale.org >http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos _______________________________________________ Caos mailing list Caos at lists.infiscale.org http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos From ikaufman at soe.ucsd.edu Fri Mar 4 08:37:53 2011 From: ikaufman at soe.ucsd.edu (Ian Kaufman) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:37:53 -0800 Subject: [Caos] Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have a 45 node, 360 core cluster running Caos-NSA and Perceus 1.5.X. It is expected to grow to about 1500 cores in the next couple of months. I might move to GravityOS if there is a well tested upgrade path. But, since things seemed to have stalled WRT Perceus, GravityOS and Caos, I am also exploring other options to keep the system updated. It supports some very intensive jobs in the Mass Spec and Proteomics Data. It also is helping crunch some data to improve ethanol formulation. Ian On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Justin Brown wrote: > Thank you, Enens. MediaWiki is problematic for that sort of thing. I've fixed it for now. > > We are going to set up a new system for documentation for our open-source projects, including PERCEUS and GravityOS. > > Is anyone currently using Caos-NSA for a cluster deployment or a server project? I'm interested in knowing about Caos-NSA's use in the wild. > > Thanks. > > -Justin Brown. > > Ennes Sarradj wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I noticed that the wiki at >>http://caoswiki.infiscale.org >>is subject to heavy spamming in the last days. >> >>As it appears that there are no new useful entries to this wiki anyway, could please someone enable a write-protect to save the wiki from further destruction. >> >>Regards, >> >>Enens >>_______________________________________________ >>Caos mailing list >>Caos at lists.infiscale.org >>http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > _______________________________________________ > Caos mailing list > Caos at lists.infiscale.org > http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > -- Ian Kaufman Research Systems Administrator UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu From robert.hamon at recherche-ste-justine.qc.ca Fri Mar 4 20:21:15 2011 From: robert.hamon at recherche-ste-justine.qc.ca (Robert Hamon) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:21:15 -0500 Subject: [Caos] Can someone stop the spam to Caos wiki please In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Using caos-nsa on a small cluster of 26 nodes, running great for about 6 months. Robert On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Justin Brown wrote: > Thank you, Enens. MediaWiki is problematic for that sort of thing. I've fixed it for now. > > We are going to set up a new system for documentation for our open-source projects, including PERCEUS and GravityOS. > > Is anyone currently using Caos-NSA for a cluster deployment or a server project? I'm interested in knowing about Caos-NSA's use in the wild. > > Thanks. > > -Justin Brown. > > Ennes Sarradj wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I noticed that the wiki at >>http://caoswiki.infiscale.org >>is subject to heavy spamming in the last days. >> >>As it appears that there are no new useful entries to this wiki anyway, could please someone enable a write-protect to save the wiki from further destruction. >> >>Regards, >> >>Enens >>_______________________________________________ >>Caos mailing list >>Caos at lists.infiscale.org >>http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > _______________________________________________ > Caos mailing list > Caos at lists.infiscale.org > http://lists.infiscale.org/mailman/listinfo/caos > From jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie Fri Mar 11 05:05:21 2011 From: jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie (Jimmy Tang) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:05:21 +0000 Subject: [Caos] cports development/fixes and packages Message-ID: <20110311130521.69073dbe@x00.tchpc.tcd.ie> Hi All, I've been using and fixing up a bunch of stuff for cports in the last few months (and using it on the clusters at our site) I was wondering if there are many users who are actively using cports? I can share what I have done if people are interested? Thanks, Jimmy. -- Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ From jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie Fri Mar 18 03:12:44 2011 From: jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie (Jimmy Tang) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:12:44 +0000 Subject: [Caos] cports development/fixes and packages In-Reply-To: <20110311130521.69073dbe@x00.tchpc.tcd.ie> References: <20110311130521.69073dbe@x00.tchpc.tcd.ie> Message-ID: <20110318101244.38947cc8@x00.tchpc.tcd.ie> Hi All, just to follow up on the previous post, please see http://thammuz.tchpc.tcd.ie/mirrors/cports/releases/cports-0.8.0.0-72-gdc95fe1.tar.bz2 http://thammuz.tchpc.tcd.ie/mirrors/cports/releases/Readme.html It's a snapshot of what we have now, and it is being used in production on a few of our clusters. Jimmy. -- Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ From justin at infiscale.com Sat Mar 19 11:50:49 2011 From: justin at infiscale.com (justin at infiscale.com) Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:50:49 -0700 Subject: [Caos] Caos-NSA update Message-ID: <20110319115049.xpz9ojumhwwg0o8o@webmail.infiscale.com> Thank you all for your feedback about current deployments of Caos-NSA and Perceus. Since we know Caos is frequently used in long-term deployments, often within secure networks behind firewalls, or as a base for custom Internet facing daemons (ie: nginx, apache, bind, etc.), so we have not provided many recent updates that may affect ongoing cluster stability or certifications. However, many of you have expressed concerns for security, and we share those concerns. Over the next few weeks we will be releasing a series of updates for several of our open source offerings. First, a long awated Caos update featuring a new kernel release and security/package updates for Caos-NSA. These updates should hopefully not effect current cluster stability, and will put Caos-NSA on a path for long-term survivability, but might break some certifications so you might want to check with your vendors or ping us on the list so we know what items need to be recertified. So if you are intending to put Caos-NSA on a deep space probe, medical equipment, or a cluster that will be in production for a number of years, this will be the release for you. Until we get a complete sign off from the initial testers, all new packages will be in the -testing repo. GravityOS full update including new iso's and a new kernel and option to go from 2.6.32 (Standard debian and Infiscale hardened) to 2.6.37 with full hardening. Updates for all packages available will be included. Perceus 1.7 is being built for release after a long testing cycle - the latest release includes the stateful deployment features and some nifty patching. RPM and .deb packages will be available, as will the source be available from the new mirror and repository servers. New VNFS's and VMFS's will be available for most os's. -Justin Brown. Infiscale From jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie Mon Mar 21 03:10:15 2011 From: jtang at tchpc.tcd.ie (Jimmy Tang) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:10:15 +0000 Subject: [Caos] Caos-NSA update In-Reply-To: <20110319115049.xpz9ojumhwwg0o8o@webmail.infiscale.com> References: <20110319115049.xpz9ojumhwwg0o8o@webmail.infiscale.com> Message-ID: <20110321101015.12086c82@x00.tchpc.tcd.ie> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:50:49 -0700 justin at infiscale.com wrote: > Thank you all for your feedback about current deployments of > Caos-NSA and Perceus. Since we know Caos is frequently used in > long-term deployments, often within secure networks behind firewalls, > or as a base for custom Internet facing daemons (ie: nginx, apache, > bind, etc.), so we have not provided many recent updates that may > affect ongoing cluster stability or certifications. However, many of > you have expressed concerns for security, and we share those concerns. > > Over the next few weeks we will be releasing a series of updates for > several of our open source offerings. First, a long awated Caos > update featuring a new kernel release and security/package updates > for Caos-NSA. These updates should hopefully not effect current > cluster stability, and will put Caos-NSA on a path for long-term > survivability, but might break some certifications so you might want > to check with your vendors or ping us on the list so we know what > items need to be recertified. So if you are intending to put > Caos-NSA on a deep space probe, medical equipment, or a cluster that > will be in production for a number of years, this will be the release > for you. Until we get a complete sign off from the initial testers, > all new packages will be in the -testing repo. I'm kinda interested in using caos-nsa as a tool too bootstrap small clusters quickly for development and teaching purposes. But often one of the requirements is that the kernel is capable of running GPFS or Lustre. Do you have any more information on the kernel that will be shipped with the updated version of caos-nsa? and will it be binary compatible with the RHEL5x and RHEL6x kernels? > > GravityOS full update including new iso's and a new kernel and > option to go from 2.6.32 (Standard debian and Infiscale hardened) to > 2.6.37 with full hardening. Updates for all packages available will > be included. > > Perceus 1.7 is being built for release after a long testing cycle - > the latest release includes the stateful deployment features and > some nifty patching. RPM and .deb packages will be available, as will > the source be available from the new mirror and repository servers. > New VNFS's and VMFS's will be available for most os's. > Cool! I was looking at percueus 1.5 to run on SL55 and I failed miserably at it. I never figured out why it failed. Thanks, Jimmy. -- Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/