Matthieu, Thanks very much. I'll add you as a proposed mentor on the wiki proposal.
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TashiProposal Dave On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Matthieu Riou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:55 AM, David O'Hallaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Matthieu, >> >> > * The sponsoring entity is the Incubator so I'm guessing you're shooting >> > for graduating as a TLP. What kind of interactions do you foresee with >> > Hadoop for example? >> >> We talked with Doug Cutting about whether to shoot for a TLP or a >> subproject under Hadoop. We decided ultimately to go the TLP route >> because Tashi and Hadoop are at different levels in the stack. >> However, we see Hadoop as one of the important applications running on >> Tashi virtual clusters, so the two projects are quite complementary. >> >> > * IIC Tashi is only about management, not about the underlying >> > storage/computing technology. Is that correct? And if so which ones do >> you >> > plan to integrate with? >> >> Yes, that's correct. We plan to integrate with the major VMMs, such as >> Xen, Linux KVM and VMWare. For storage, we're looking at integrating >> with HDFS, pVFS and later pNFS when it becomes more mature.An >> important goal is to provide the hooks and interfaces that allow any >> DFS and VMM vendor to integrate with the system. >> >> > * I can't help asking for more technical details. What's the >> > implementation language for your POC code? What are the non-proprietary >> > interfaces you're thinking of? >> >> The POC code is a couple of thousand lines of original Python code. >> Major components are cluster manager (cm), which runs on one of the >> cluster nodes, a node manager (nm), which runs on each of the other >> physical cluster nodes, a simple db on the cluster manager for >> configuration data, and some client utilities. >> >> We're really thinking hard about interfaces now, but don't have clear >> definitions yet. The kinds of things wer are thinking about are >> interfaces between the client and cm and cm and nm for manipulating >> starting, starting, and migrating vms, interfaces for some kind of >> event/messaging system for monitoring and reporting system state to >> the cm and client, interfaces between the cm/nm and storage system to >> allow the cm to do storage-aware scheduling of vms, interfaces to >> power management and system management hardware features, and possibly >> interfaces for federating different Tashi clusters. >> > > > Okay, sounds good to me, thanks for the clarifications. > > Also if you need another mentor, you can count me in. > > Cheers, > Matthieu > > > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> -- David O'Hallaron >> -- Director, Intel Research Pittsburgh >> -- Assoc Prof of CS and ECE, Carnegie Mellon University >> -- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~droh <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Edroh> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > -- -- David O'Hallaron -- Director, Intel Research Pittsburgh -- Assoc Prof of CS and ECE, Carnegie Mellon University -- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~droh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
