Re: Compaq launches Open SSI Cluster Projects

[Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>]

David Brower wrote:
> 
> They -have- developed in a linux vacuum; this is the Tandem/NonStop/SCO
> Unix cluster stuff, pretty much as deployed on that platform.
> 
> Personally, I am more interested in the CI part of the project, which
> along with the IBM DLM would provide a reasonable GFS platform.  It seems
> it would get together faster than GFS-on-DLM-on-heartbeat would.

Got any Round Tuits you can send me?     Any grad students?
 
> In a perfect world, many of the components would plug together; I don't know
> how the CI stuff maps into the heartbeat model.

Hopefully, heartbeat will map into the framework model, not the other way
around ;-)

It is one of the influences that enters into the framework model, and there
are a few things it does nicely, and we'll preserve those.

But, it will just be one component of many.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh

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