Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs

[james <garftd@verizon.net>]

On 06/03/2016 12:02 PM, Justin Bronder wrote:
> On 02/06/16 10:42 -0500, james wrote:
>> On 06/01/2016 06:20 PM, Justin Bronder wrote:
>>   > Due to a lack of time and the fact I don't use any of these packages
>>   > anymore, they are all up for grabs.
>>   >
>>   >      - media-gfx/openmesh [no project]
>>   >      - sys-cluster/ganglia [cluster]
>>   >      - sys-cluster/ganglia-web [cluster]
>>   >      - sys-cluster/torque [cluster]
>>   >      - sys-cluster/munge [cluster] dependency of sys-cluster/torque
>>   >      - sys-cluster/mpe2 [cluster]
>>   >
>>   > Also, if there's anyone out there using the science overlay and empi
>>   > who's feeling motivated, that work still needs a champion to get it
>>   > into the main tree.  If not, I'll probably drop it in a few months
>>   > and open openmpi and mpich2 to project maintenance as well.  I
>>   > haven't been involved in HPC for over a decade now, it's time to
>>   > pass the torch.
>>
>>
>> Hello Justin,
>>
>> I've been working on cluster ebuilds for a while (Apache Mesos, spark,
>> etc). I'm willing to proxy maintain these except torque. Assuming there
>> are no users of torque on gentoo (bgo seems inactive...it's dead; how
>> would I know?).
>
> Looks like Ian got torque already, but he may appreciate some help.  For the
> other packages, I'm more then happy to proxy maintain them for you.  Just send
> any patches my way (including a first one to add you as a maintainer :)

OK will do and thanks for the help/sponsorship on these packages.


>> My focus is building gentoo centric HPC clusters that do not require
>> systemd as a component, with deployment emphasis on bare-metal and
>> minimized gentoo systems where only the codes absolutely necessary to
>> support the necessary frameworks are dynamically installed. Many of the
>> 'retro' tools in this cluster space, are quite useful for my work.
>>
>> The guidexml page for empi is old, so where do I read up on it's
>> projected usage (just not familiar with that empi project/package).
>
> The empi documentation did get moved over to the wiki [1].  However, it's pretty
> much the exact same thing you're seeing in the guidexml page.  I know there were
> some HPC sites using it in the past, but I haven't heard from anyone lately.
> That could mean no one is using it, or that everything is working as expected.
>
> 1.  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Empi

I'll survey and work on the others (checking bgo) and elsewhere for 
issues first. Then I'll poke around on empi an see what's up.

Netflix has posted a neat little (debian) cluster and running their 
framework on arm (rasp. pi) using apache mesos::

http://ispyker.blogspot.com/2016/05/services-with-netflix-titus-and.html

My (ultimate) goal is pretty similar, just using gentoo in lieu of 
debian; so if you run across any other relevant codes, drop me a line.


Thanks again,
James