General question or experiences about Landscape/Ubuntu Cloud /Cluster functionality.

[Benoit des Ligneris]

Hello,

Well, I'm a bit "tainted" here as I was chairman of the OSCAR (Open Source
Cluster Application Ressources) project
some years ago (competition between Rocks and OSCAR was ... fierce at this
time ;-). Rocks is single distro, OSCAR
is multi-distro (RPM-based initially but debian based now thanks to Geoffroy
Vallée and Inria in France).

Anyway, OSCAR and Rocks provide the same cluster stack. I'm not aware of any
HPC stack that officially
support Ubuntu but OSCAR is running fine on Debian (
http://oscarondebian.gforge.inria.fr/)

My guess is that it would be relatively easy to use OSCAR on Ubuntu and I
will gladly help make this happen ;-)

On another level, from what I understand, you "only" need a Java +
Postgresql stack and this could be very easily
achieved with network boot, debian pre-seed and a configuration management
system (BCFG2, Cfengine2, Puppet, etc.). We manage more than 1000 Ubuntu
servers worldwide for various customers with this setup.

Ben


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 13:46, Eric Peters <eric at linuxsystems.net> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
>     My lead developer has been thinking about putting our SAAS
> application (java / postgresql) in a cluster/cloud. He has used ROCKS
> cluster in the past, and touts it's advantage of deploying thousands
> of machines in the same amount of time to as it takes to deploy two.
> More info about ROCKS here http://www.rocksclusters.org. Problem is
> ROCKS is Red Hat only. As it stands now I have the devs onboard with
> Ubuntu and have migrated away from RHEL 4, but the lead has tasked me
> to start to take a look at a ROCKS type solution.  Any experience,
> insight, about  Landscape, Ubuntu Cloud, or some other type of
> software/service that provides something like ROCKS does?
>
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Eric
>
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