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
2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade kwade@redhat.com:
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
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Jeff Spaleta jspaleta@gmail.com wrote:
2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade kwade@redhat.com:
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
2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade kwade@redhat.com:
- 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.
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 13:47 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
2008/3/5 Karsten 'quaid' Wade kwade@redhat.com:
- 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*
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.)
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