Re: openssi vs CI-linux

On 3/2/07, Ali Bendriss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to set up a SSI cluster for HPC about 8-10 nodes. I'm really
> interested by the OpenSSI project and as well by ci-linux.
>
> But I don't understand really the link between the work done on the Linux
> cluster infrastructure from
> http://git.openssi.org/~kvaneesh/gitweb.cgi?p=ci-to-linus.git;a=summary
>  and the openSSI.


This was my effort to get the CI-Linux code merged with upstream. It
has a configfs based configuration CLMS moved to user space and
Infiniband interconnect support.

>
> Could you please give me your opinion about using the latest CI from
> ci-to-linus.git in production.
> If you think that it's enough mature what about the cluster-tools and
> ssi-tools. Do you thing it's better for me to use the ones you provide from
> git or the tools that come from openssi ?
> Will you continue working on openssi/ci in the future ?
>

If you are looking for a cluster to be used in production go with what
is released from OpenSSI website. It is much more tested and complete.

-aneesh

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