Ubuntu for IA64 - Gelato meeting report

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Thierry

Thanks very much for the report back to the list, and congrats on your 
progress. We will have 3 buildd's and a porting box up and running, 
hopefully today (20 October 04) for te Hoary release process, so we 
should be able to have a fully supported release of Hoary for IA64 if 
your porting effort goes well.

We would also be very happy to host more development machines in our 
data center space, directly attached to the rest of the Ubuntu 
infrastructure.

Good luck with your ongoing porting,
Mark

T Simonnet wrote:

>Hello Mark,
>
>I'm just back from Beijing. I've presented to the
>Gelato members Ubuntu Linux as a potential
>enterprise-grade IA64 linux distribution and asked for
>it to be a Gelato certified distribution (to integrate
>Gelato's research projects and to provide standardized
>and up-to-date distribution).
>
>One member first suggested that you have to pay to get
>something (a la Red Hat), but he finally changed his
>mind ;)
>
>Chinese universities use an IA64 port of RedFlag Linux
>(http://www.redflag-linux.com/eindex.html), we
>couldn't find out whether they are willing to change
>that. HP Labs use Debian, but are able to use any kind
>of free distribution without support.
>
>On the other hand, many members want to have a
>standard, up-to-date, Linux distribution for their
>clusters, grids, and standalone servers. Many persons
>are ok to work on the port but there was no further
>discussion about its "future support" (ie: next
>revisions).
>
>The first step of Gelato collaboration would be to
>start the project. HP Universities Relations
>department asked me to organize the various stages of
>the collaboration (schedule, tasks, means,
>localization, evolution steps).
>
>HP is able to provide some boxes for development. As a
>new Gelato sponsor, Intel will provide the members
>with some prototype processors. Mid november, Intel
>will start a new grant program and will select
>eligible projects based on their abstracts.
>
>My goal is to create a collaborative team to release
>first an IA64 Ubuntu distribution suitable for:
> - grid computing usage (grid tools and scientific
>apps packages)
> - clustering usage (clustering tools packages)
> - standalone servers
>
>It's worth noting that 6 universities of ChinaGrid
>organization own an IA64 cluster :)
>
>SGI will be the next Gelato federation sponsor. At
>that time we can consider the workstation side of the
>project :)
>
>I will soon make a call for Gelato's people to create
>this team. I have to wait for HP's clearance first.
>
>Thierry Simonnet
>
>
>
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