Not much more other than to say that the project involves an automated deployment and management system for large scale grid/cloud computing architecture. It is a component of the HPC Developer community http://opensolaris.org/os/community/hpcdev/ but there are still some contractual agreements in the works so I can not say more.
Bruce On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Bruce Rothermal wrote: >> This package is needed for a $Supported code project we are working >> on in HPC. Since we are already porting this for our project we are >> directed to make the package available to all and also so it is >> available via the IPS package server on opensolaris.org. > > Does this mean that we should be scrutinizing this project much more > closely? If the project is being put into use as a building block > by our own developers, then it is no longer a "familiarity" project, > and probably deserves much closer consideration for architectural > correctness and completeness. > > Can you provide more detail about this other project? > > - Garrett >> >> Bruce >> >> On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Joep Vesseur wrote: >> >>> On 08/21/09 22:31, John Fischer wrote: >>> >>>> This project proposes to integrate the Environment Modules within a >>>> Minor release of Solaris (i.e., Open Solaris). The environment >>>> modules >>>> provides an easy modification to a user's environment via TCL >>>> scripts. >>>> These scripts set various environmental variables such as PATH, >>>> MANPATH, >>>> etc. >>> >>> I'm not sure my remarks make any PSARC sense, but since there is no >>> rationale mentioned for integrating this, I'm inclined to ask >>> anyway: >>> >>> Does it really make sense to force people into being able to read/ >>> write TCL in order for them to configure their shell? I imagine >>> that most of the modulefile(4)s would be written by administrators >>> (how many of them speak TCL?), but users will have to debug/override >>> any settings they want to tweak. >>> >>> I'm just wondering why we pick a TCL-based configuration tool for >>> something like this. If the answer is Linux-compatibility, I think >>> there is enough precedent, whether I like it or not. Otherwise, I'm >>> not sure that we build a useful architecture here. >>> >>> Joep >> >> >> >> Bruce Rothermal >> Email: bruce.rothermal at sun.com >> Skype: bruce.rothermal >> Google Talk: bruce.rothermal at gmail.com >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- Bruce Rothermal Email: bruce.rothermal at sun.com Skype: bruce.rothermal Google Talk: bruce.rothermal at gmail.com
