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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Artabel Parallel
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Loic Dachary |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Artabel Parallel Environment |
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Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:02:54 +0200 |
Access to ftp://mail.artabel.net/incoming/arpe/src/ times out at
present. I'll try again tomorrow. You can also send the tarbals via mail
to me (address@hidden) directly.
Cheers,
address@hidden writes:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Pablo Bosch <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: Artabel Parallel Environment
> System name: arpe
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>
> Description:
> Arpe is a WEB based build and manage beowulf-style clusters tool. From yous
> Arpe server, you can install GNU/Linux on nodes, partition their hard-disks
> and make node hard disk snapshots that you can apply later to other nodes.
> This is used to clone GNU/Linux installations from one node to N nodes when
> setting up the cluster. You can also keep a \"library\" of GNU/Linux
> installations so you can test new software and go back to the prevoius
> version if it is not stable.
> Arpe can handle heterogeneous cluster nodes, meaning that the only
> requirement is that the node can run some kind of GNU/Linux, different hard
> disk geometries or interfaces are taken into account when cloning.
> Currently only Redhat 6.x/7.x are supported but Arpe is not tied to a
> particular distribution.
>
> Arpe relies on DHCP/PXE/tftp to send an IP/kernel/ramdisk/kernel-options to
> cluster nodes on booting.
> You can have a different kernel/boot options for each node as well as
> different GNU/Linux systems.
>
> There is also :
> 1) A monitoring tool (pingusd) to check cpu/mem/disk/file systems etc...
> activity.
> 2) An accounting tool (acct) to view user cluster utilisation on a
> day/month/year basis
> 3) Administrator tools a la WebAdmin to configure users, nodes, PBS
>
> Arpe already exists and you can download the latest distribution at
> ftp://mail.artabel.net/incoming/arpe/src/
> Docs are available at
> ftp://mail.artabel.net/incoming/arpe/doc
> Redhat 6.2 and 7.x Snapshots at
> ftp://mail.artabel.net/incoming/arpe/images
>
> Version 1.1.x is the most stable but is no longer supported.
> Version 1.2.x is under development but usable, it has many improvements and
> can handle cluster users besides cluster administrators.
>
> Please read the doc (postscript) carefully before using Arpe.
>
> Other Software Required:
> Apache
> PHP 4
> Postgresql (<7.3)
> rsuid (included)
>
> Other Comments:
> This project was to be hosted on sourceforge two years ago. Now it is much
> more stable.
> It was also registered as BluePill
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