[ale] Cluster hardware fault tracking; Latest kernel development

[Dow Hurst]

I would like to know some links to info on building a cluster but from 
the management viewpoint of integrating software to pinpoint hardware 
problems.  Is there any opensource software out there that looks at the 
hardware?  I can see if you get the right mix of hardware you could use 
sensors and info in /proc  and also logcheck to watch what is happening 
on a machine.  I was wondering if people have integrated this into a 
cluster monitor package.  I know IBM stresses this as a selling point on 
their clusters since that is part of the package you get.  I am sure 
that SGI's Altix cluster is similar.  I am thinking of commodity self 
built clusters and open source cluster software.

I've been looking at the development kernels and noticed that IBM and 
SGI are contributing quite a bit to the 64bit code for the Itanium2 and 
Opteron processors.  At least that what it seems to me, however, I 
haven't much experience with reading kernel changelogs.  I noticed that 
the MIPs code seemed to be active from the SGI contributions and that it 
might be possible to compile a kernel for an SGI Indigo, Origin, or O2 
now.  Does anyone have any experience with the procedure for getting a 
basic Linux install running on different architecture than x86?  I think 
it would be quite interesting to take one of the SGI O2s I have here and 
try to get Linux running on it.
Thanks for your advice!
Dow



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