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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Linux Kongress 2001 Clustering Workshop
November 26 - 28 2001
Enschede, NL
We are pleased to announce a working group meeting for all clustering related
topics on Linux, taking place as a part of and directly prior to the Linux
Kongress 2001.
The purpose of this meeting is to form a permanent working group on an Open
Clustering Framework, define its charter and outline the roadmap for future
work.
An Open Clustering Framework is urgently needed to increase compatibility of
projects, allow for applications to be portable across different
implementations/installations and should ideally become part of the Linux
Standards Base at some future date.
The agenda for this meeting is:
- Overview of proposed working group
- Discussion of its charter
- Presentation of current efforts
- Discussion of initial roadmap
- Work on roadmap items
Interesting papers concerning current clustering efforts are invited, to allow
for an overview of currently available solutions and open issues. Topics of
interest from this point of view include, but are not limited to:
- All aspects of High Availability Clustering
- All aspects of High Performance Clustering
- Specialised filesystems
- Distributed Lock Managers
- Kernel modifications for clustering
- Status reports of existing projects
- Research reports and Work In Progress reports
While the focus is on open efforts, commercial vendors are explicitly
solicited to present their technical offering and work with us on the Open
Clustering Framework and other aspects of Linux clustering. The cooperation
between commercial vendors and the community is vital on arriving at a viable
solution from which all parties would greatly benefit.
The intended audience of this working group meeting are clustering system
architects and developers, cluster application developers, and interested
users, whose input will be particularly welcome.
On Monday and Tuesday, we expect to have a single track of presentations, 4-6
each day, each lasting 45-90 minutes. We will also have plenty of time for
spontaneous BOF sessions.
On Wednesday morning, we will conclude the meeting with a panel session on:
"Clustering Efforts for Linux - Present and Future"
After this, the main Linux Kongress 2001 will start and you are of course
invited to stay or present a paper in the main tracks.
If you are interested in presenting your work or participating in the working
group meeting, please contact Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@xxxxxxx> by Friday,
2001-11-02.
Please send a short (<400 words) abstract of your topic, whether you would
like to make it a presentation, working group meeting or tutorial.
We are also pleased that we have a - albeit limited - budget for travel
expenses.
Please understand that travel expenses can only be paid for in few cases as
our budget is rather limited, and that we would like to ask companies to pay
for their employees.
However, if you are an Open Source developer, student or working on an
interesting project and have difficulty making the trip, please contact us
also to see whether we can work something out.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée (Working Group Organizer)
Alan Roberston (Linux HA Project)
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