name for Fedora compute grid project

[Karsten Wade]

Recently under discussion on f-a-b is the idea of creating a
million-node compute grid using Condor and other tools.  This might
include, for example, the ability to join the grid during firstboot.
Catch up on that thread here:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-March/msg00022.htm...

We are suffering from a cool name; we are in danger of calling it
"Fedora@Home" in the meantime, and with one pick-up of that name in
Fedora Weekly News, someone is going to come pressing trademark rights.
Shall we declare it a codename in seek of a replacement?

What this thing is:

* A cool piece of technology with a grid client and Fedora-run grid
master
* A way to contribute to Fedora with spare CPU cycles from your
machine(s); useful for everyone from Web surfing grandmas to kernel
hackers with quad-cores
* A chance to create something that Fedorans can use for good projects:
  - Distributed build-system
  - Social and technical causes that match with Fedora values/ideals
  - Cool research

It's some kind of convergence, which is why it needs a cool name, right?

- Karsten

[Jef Spaleta]

2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade :
> What this thing is:
> A cool piece of technology with a grid client and Fedora-run grid
>
> master
> A way to contribute to Fedora with spare CPU cycles from your
>
> machine(s); useful for everyone from Web surfing grandmas to kernel
>  hackers with quad-cores
> A chance to create something that Fedorans can use for good projects:
> Distributed build-system
> Social and technical causes that match with Fedora values/ideals
> Cool research
>
> It's some kind of convergence, which is why it needs a cool name, right?

Are we explicitly saying that non-Fedora clients aren't going to be
able to participate?

-jef

[Clint Savage]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Jeff Spaleta  wrote:
> 2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade :
> > What this thing is:
> > A cool piece of technology with a grid client and Fedora-run grid
> >
> > master
> > A way to contribute to Fedora with spare CPU cycles from your
> >
> > machine(s); useful for everyone from Web surfing grandmas to kernel
> >  hackers with quad-cores
> > A chance to create something that Fedorans can use for good projects:
> > Distributed build-system
> > Social and technical causes that match with Fedora values/ideals
> > Cool research
> >
> > It's some kind of convergence, which is why it needs a cool name,
>
> right?
>
> Are we explicitly saying that non-Fedora clients aren't going to be
> able to participate?
>
> -jef

I dub thee, 'Project F'

Cheers,

Clint

[Clint Savage]

I dub thee, 'Project F'

Cheers,
> Clint
>
> Okay, thinking about this a bit more seriously, that won't work.   /me

thinks F1, F2,.... oops!

Clint

[Jef Spaleta]

2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade :
> A cool piece of technology with a grid client and Fedora-run grid
>
> master
> A way to contribute to Fedora with spare CPU cycles from your
>
> machine(s); useful for everyone from Web surfing grandmas to kernel
>  hackers with quad-cores
> A chance to create something that Fedorans can use for good projects:
> Distributed build-system
> Social and technical causes that match with Fedora values/ideals
> Cool research
>
> It's some kind of convergence, which is why it needs a cool name, right?

Okay, assuming we are only going to allow Fedora clients:
The Fedora Trellis:
The 'open' grid supporting Fedora's growth.

If we are going to allow non-Fedora clients I would just call it The Trellis:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trellis
trellis (n)
1.  A structure of open latticework, especially one used as a support
for vines and other creeping plants.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 13:47 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade :
> > A cool piece of technology with a grid client and Fedora-run grid
> >
> > master
> > A way to contribute to Fedora with spare CPU cycles from your
> >
> > machine(s); useful for everyone from Web surfing grandmas to kernel
> >  hackers with quad-cores
> > A chance to create something that Fedorans can use for good projects:
> > Distributed build-system
> > Social and technical causes that match with Fedora values/ideals
> > Cool research
> >
> > It's some kind of convergence, which is why it needs a cool name, right?
>
> Okay, assuming we are only going to allow Fedora clients:
> The Fedora Trellis:
> The 'open' grid supporting Fedora's growth.
>
> If we are going to allow non-Fedora clients I would just call it The Trellis:

*ding ding ding*

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 13:47 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Okay, assuming we are only going to allow Fedora clients:
> The Fedora Trellis:
> The 'open' grid supporting Fedora's growth.
>
> If we are going to allow non-Fedora clients I would just call it The Trellis:

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Trellis

(Actually I lie. I sometimes like it. But not this time.)