Hello David, I've been POC-ing the software on RHEL 8.6 using old HPE hardware. So far it's been fairly simple to get up and running. The documentation is up to date and the lead developer (Jarrod) has been able to answer my questions. If your fear is the learning curve then I'd have to advise you might be mistaken. I hope this is helpful.
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 11:23 AM David Magda <dmagda+x...@ee.torontomu.ca> wrote: > Yes, there was perhaps auto-completion with regards Confluent/Confluence. > > I currently have a (legacy?) ‘joint’ xCAT-Confluent (3.6) installation on > RHEL 7 that I inherited; if one wants to fully move from xCAT to Confluent, > is there document on how to ‘extract’ oneself from xCAT? I don’t see > anything that jumps out at: > > https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/ > https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/documentation/ > > Should I simply abandon the previous installation and do a fresh install? > While there is some documentation, the system leans towards being heavily > vendor-used so people completely new to it have a steep learning curve > (xCAT is/was also challenging to get into since it was fairly > vendor-focused). > > > > On Oct 25, 2023, at 08:51, Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com> wrote: > > > > Yeah, the naming at the time was knowingly close to confluence, but > thought the 't' was distinct. The Apache Confluent was unforseen... I'm > too lazy to drive a name change, but perhaps one will happen one day. > > > > As far as confluent, it's been historically in > github.com/xcat2/confluent, also pull requests. As far as discussions, > currently on this list for now. There may be some tweaks based on > conversations over the coming weeks, but it'll be something along those > lines. > > > > The pull requests that are pending are actively being discussed, though > admittedly we've been using chat instead of the public pull request to do > quicker back and forth. > > From: Ryan Novosielski via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 12:40 PM > > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Cc: Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu> > > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: Announcement: xCAT Project > End-Of-Life planned for December 1, 2023 > > > > Bear in mind that this is called “Confluent” (pronounced Con-FLU-ent), > and not Confluence, which is a part of the Jira suite of tools (nor Apache > Confluent — this namespace seems a little crowded). > > > > -- > > #BlackLivesMatter > > ____ > > || \\UTGERS, > |---------------------------*O*--------------------------- > > ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu > > || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS > Campus > > || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB A555B, > Newark > > `' > > > >> On Oct 24, 2023, at 12:07, David Magda <dmagda+x...@ee.torontomu.ca> > wrote: > >> > >> Where is the ‘community’ for Confluence gathering? Any mailing lists? > Where does the code live? Bug reports and patches / pull requests? > >> > >> > >>> On Sep 21, 2023, at 17:13, Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Yes, we are committed to it being open source ongoing. I won't rule > out proprietary things built on top of it, but at least in all the ways > that exist today and the CLI I don't imagine any changes. Currently, the > GUI is not technically open sourced (though everyone gets the source code, > but no redistribution). I do hope to at least open source our upcoming > browser library that makes writing a webui with all the async behaviors a > bit more trivial (which is what the next WebUI will be written with). > >>> > >>> > >> […] > >>> From: Don Avart <dav...@redlineperf.com> > >>> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2023 1:05 PM > >>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > >>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: Announcement: xCAT Project > End-Of-Life planned for December 1, 2023 > >>> > >>> I couldn’t agree more with Brian’s sentiment about xCAT. We, RedLine, > have been xCAT users, integrators and occasional contributors since the end > of IBM’s CSM. We’ve deployed it on numerous vendor platforms and it just > works. As a small business in the greater HPC marketplace we have many > customers that rely on xCAT and we will need to work with them to identify > an alternative should xCAT discontinue. I’ve reached out to the IBM team > as well as Jarrod from Lenovo and others in the community. I am very > interested in putting together a plan that would continue to provide an > open source option that is platform agnostic. > […] > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > -- Sincerely, John Villa Manager - High Performance Computing Research Computing Services Columbia University Information Technology 347-213-0339
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