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] > >
