We've got a related project called
'GridShell'
that may be of some interest to the readers. Basically, it gives a slick WebUI as a front-end to an AI Grid Computing interface. As an added bonus, we've included our new implementation of the AWESOME new programming language
'SequenceL',
which will
AUTOMATICALLY and INTELLIGENTLY PARALLELIZE and DISTRIBUTE ITSELF
across pretty much any Grid of Grids or Clusters or SuperComputers or whatever. You can check it out now at
http://gridshell.sourceforge.net
Thanks!
-Will MacBraswald, Jr.
Creator, GridShell
PS - Why didn't the/. editors want to post a story about this?
I've been writing (partially for my CompSci Masters thesis) a new Grid-oriented application that may be of interest. It's called GridShell, and aims to provide a Free/OSS interface to any and all Grid technologies. Currently, GridShell's skin-able web-based UI (WebUI) is almost completed, able to provide the equivalent of an expert Grid administrator/user through a very "clicky-clicky" frontend.
Oh, and it's all 100% Object-Oriented Perl, for those of you who care about clean code.
More really crazy GridShell modules are down the road, so check it out!
Well, we've got ourselves a new filesystem to play with, guys, and IMHO a pretty cool one, at that. I'm a summer intern with the JFS team at IBM, so I'm definitely looking at this subjectively. However, I've been testing it's stability for the past month or so, and have been pleased with the results. (It'll pass RedHat's "cerberus" kernel stressing tests.)
Oh, and there are more features on the way, so check the JFS website every once in a while!
I work at IBM and I see that, while still a Multi-National Corporation (capitalists) , they're actually willing to move into a position of reciprocation with the Linux community. They make our OS better, we like them more, we buy their hardware. Hey, IBM makes some cool hardware anyway, so where's the problem?
Like I said, I work(ed) and will work at IBM on developing software for Linux. I got a chance to meet and talk w/ Jeff Smith, whose official position is VP of eBOSS (Electronic Business Operating Systems Solutions, I think) last summer during my first internship, and we discussed IBM's plans for Linux. I am active in two LUG's, as well as the Texas Tech ACM, and Jeff was able to come speak at Tech last semester. What did he talk about? IBM's plans for the future, wich seem to contain a heavy helping of Linux development and support. Why is IBM doing this? Because they're smarter than M$ insomuch as they realize that OSS/is/ the future. They're certainly not losing any time in gaining market dominace in hardware to support our OS.
And they pay me to write GPL'd software. IBM kicks ass.
As a person who has had personal (and quite recent) experience working w/ IBM on linux software, I think I can answer your concern regarding the possibility that IBM will " possibly taking credit for major chunks of the kernel and networking code for themselves": it's GPL'd, man. Although there will always be the pessimist who will argue that the GNU General Public License hasn't withstood a real legal battle (which allows for the possibility of some MegaCorp. lawyer finding a way to exploit it), it's obviously the most widely accepted OSS license around today. I can see absolvtely no motivation for IBM to want to try and find a loophole in the GPL, anyway. It seems to me that they sincerely want to help make a fscking awesome OS even better.
Hmmm... All I can say is try your best to talk w/ any sort of IBM rep that may be at some school function (job fair, etc.). And make sure you know your stuff. No secrets that I know of. And I'm forbidden (non-disclosure agreements) to tell you the secret IBM handshake, which gets you into any IBM building around the world. Oh, wait. I was thinking about my ID card. Nevermind...
Actually, you can come and go as you please, and there's no dress code. I usually wear jeans and a shirt, but you can wear shorts and a t-shirt if you want. It's actually, by far, the coolest place I've ever worked. And I'm still/in/ school. (Internship, donchaknow.)
Allrighty, everybody. I think that anyone who starts to think "why would we need another LVM?" should/definitely/ go read the LVMS whitepaper. It's not the same thing as the previous LVM or LVM's that may have existed. Go. Read.
Let me tell you one of the neato things about working at IBM in Austin - I got to talk to Ben (yes, Ben Rafanello, the guy who posted the stuff to the linux mailing lists) all about this last night, and he told me he was planning on posting that stuff. So anyway, I read the LVMS whitepaper last night, and it is/definitely/ something that the Linux community is going to want to jump at.
For those of you who are wondering about what license it will be released under - well, I can't say for sure. Just remember that IBM GPL'd their JFS, and we continue to work on that here as well. (I'm actually working on the JFS here in Austin.)
And yes, IBM/has/ changed alot. They're actually pretty damned cool! I would highly recommend anyone looking for a cool Linux-related job to consider IBM. Hey, look at me! I'm getting paid to write Open-Source Software!
Wow, I can't believe that Tom Christiansen actually posted stuff about this.
If you'll follow the link that he gave to Computer, you'll see that Dr. Daniel Cooke is listed as one of the guys that wrote the article interviewing Ken. As I said in a previous post, Dr. Cooke received permission from Computer and Bell Labs to show SPUUG (South Plains Unix User Group; Texas Tech's little group that I coordinate) an unreleased video of him interviewing Ken in person. Alot of different material than that in the printed version.
Also, Dr. Cooke mentioned to me several times that he received QUITE a bit of flame from the Linux community when that stuff that Ken said was printed, even though he was just the one who wrote it up for Computer.
Again, I can't believe Tom actually posted about this stuff. Wow. Let me just say that backward: woW.
Actually, I'm currently studying under one Dr. Cooke, who happens to be close friends w/ the likes of Ken Thompson and Vaughan Pratt. I've talked extensively w/ Dr. Cooke about such people, and have even showed interviews given by my prof w/ Thompson at one of the *nix group meetings I run at school.
Furthermore, I'm very good friends w/ a volunteer at GNU, and keep up w/ all of RMS's posts and such. Not to be outdone, I've also humbly requested the presence of ESR at a meeting of mine in April, and he's accepted the invitation.
I think it's safe to say I'm not giving into the "web hype-monkeys". I simply stated that I share many of the same view and opinions.
It's called respect. I have a very high amount of respect for Rob, and others like him. The very simple fact that many geeks today aren't able to find suitable role-models in their everyday lives will lend this argument even more credibility. I will accept, to a certain extent, Rob's posts to be pretty authoratative. I've read/. for years, and am able to honestly say that I agree w/ pretty much everything the guy posts. Is it so bad that I happen to share roughly the same opinions w/ someone who is substantially more noteworthy than myself? It's not always about being a follower, you know...
The two major differences between us being that you posted anonymously, and were moderated at a 0. Just because I like to talk about my uptime doesn't mean I'm bragging. And CmdrTaco even said, IF your uptime isn't sacred to you, update the kernel. If Rob will acknowledge that uptimes are important, then that's good enough for me.
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We've got a related project called 'GridShell' that may be of some interest to the readers. Basically, it gives a slick WebUI as a front-end to an AI Grid Computing interface. As an added bonus, we've included our new implementation of the AWESOME new programming language 'SequenceL', which will AUTOMATICALLY and INTELLIGENTLY PARALLELIZE and DISTRIBUTE ITSELF across pretty much any Grid of Grids or Clusters or SuperComputers or whatever. You can check it out now at http://gridshell.sourceforge.net
/. editors want to post a story about this?
Thanks!
-Will MacBraswald, Jr.
Creator, GridShell
PS - Why didn't the
I've been writing (partially for my CompSci Masters thesis) a new Grid-oriented application that may be of interest. It's called GridShell, and aims to provide a Free/OSS interface to any and all Grid technologies. Currently, GridShell's skin-able web-based UI (WebUI) is almost completed, able to provide the equivalent of an expert Grid administrator/user through a very "clicky-clicky" frontend.
Oh, and it's all 100% Object-Oriented Perl, for those of you who care about clean code.
More really crazy GridShell modules are down the road, so check it out!
http://www.gridshell.org
-Will the Chill
Well, we've got ourselves a new filesystem to play with, guys, and IMHO a pretty cool one, at that. I'm a summer intern with the JFS team at IBM, so I'm definitely looking at this subjectively. However, I've been testing it's stability for the past month or so, and have been pleased with the results. (It'll pass RedHat's "cerberus" kernel stressing tests.)
Oh, and there are more features on the way, so check the JFS website every once in a while!
-Will the Chill
I work at IBM and I see that, while still a Multi-National Corporation (capitalists) , they're actually willing to move into a position of reciprocation with the Linux community. They make our OS better, we like them more, we buy their hardware. Hey, IBM makes some cool hardware anyway, so where's the problem?
/is/ the future. They're certainly not losing any time in gaining market dominace in hardware to support our OS.
Like I said, I work(ed) and will work at IBM on developing software for Linux. I got a chance to meet and talk w/ Jeff Smith, whose official position is VP of eBOSS (Electronic Business Operating Systems Solutions, I think) last summer during my first internship, and we discussed IBM's plans for Linux. I am active in two LUG's, as well as the Texas Tech ACM, and Jeff was able to come speak at Tech last semester. What did he talk about? IBM's plans for the future, wich seem to contain a heavy helping of Linux development and support. Why is IBM doing this? Because they're smarter than M$ insomuch as they realize that OSS
And they pay me to write GPL'd software. IBM kicks ass.
-Will the Chill
Legalize It.
As a person who has had personal (and quite recent) experience working w/ IBM on linux software, I think I can answer your concern regarding the possibility that IBM will " possibly taking credit for major chunks of the kernel and networking code for themselves": it's GPL'd, man. Although there will always be the pessimist who will argue that the GNU General Public License hasn't withstood a real legal battle (which allows for the possibility of some MegaCorp. lawyer finding a way to exploit it), it's obviously the most widely accepted OSS license around today. I can see absolvtely no motivation for IBM to want to try and find a loophole in the GPL, anyway. It seems to me that they sincerely want to help make a fscking awesome OS even better.
-Will the Chill
Legalize It.
Hmmm... All I can say is try your best to talk w/ any sort of IBM rep that may be at some school function (job fair, etc.). And make sure you know your stuff. No secrets that I know of. And I'm forbidden (non-disclosure agreements) to tell you the secret IBM handshake, which gets you into any IBM building around the world. Oh, wait. I was thinking about my ID card. Nevermind...
-Will the Chill
Actually, you can come and go as you please, and there's no dress code. I usually wear jeans and a shirt, but you can wear shorts and a t-shirt if you want. It's actually, by far, the coolest place I've ever worked. And I'm still /in/ school. (Internship, donchaknow.)
-Will the Chill
Allrighty, everybody. I think that anyone who starts to think "why would we need another LVM?" should /definitely/ go read the LVMS whitepaper. It's not the same thing as the previous LVM or LVM's that may have existed. Go. Read.
/definitely/ something that the Linux community is going to want to jump at.
/has/ changed alot. They're actually pretty damned cool! I would highly recommend anyone looking for a cool Linux-related job to consider IBM. Hey, look at me! I'm getting paid to write Open-Source Software!
Let me tell you one of the neato things about working at IBM in Austin - I got to talk to Ben (yes, Ben Rafanello, the guy who posted the stuff to the linux mailing lists) all about this last night, and he told me he was planning on posting that stuff. So anyway, I read the LVMS whitepaper last night, and it is
For those of you who are wondering about what license it will be released under - well, I can't say for sure. Just remember that IBM GPL'd their JFS, and we continue to work on that here as well. (I'm actually working on the JFS here in Austin.)
And yes, IBM
-Will the Chill
Wow, I can't believe that Tom Christiansen actually posted stuff about this.
If you'll follow the link that he gave to Computer, you'll see that Dr. Daniel Cooke is listed as one of the guys that wrote the article interviewing Ken. As I said in a previous post, Dr. Cooke received permission from Computer and Bell Labs to show SPUUG (South Plains Unix User Group; Texas Tech's little group that I coordinate) an unreleased video of him interviewing Ken in person. Alot of different material than that in the printed version.
Also, Dr. Cooke mentioned to me several times that he received QUITE a bit of flame from the Linux community when that stuff that Ken said was printed, even though he was just the one who wrote it up for Computer.
Again, I can't believe Tom actually posted about this stuff. Wow. Let me just say that backward: woW.
-Will the Chill
Actually, I'm currently studying under one Dr. Cooke, who happens to be close friends w/ the likes of Ken Thompson and Vaughan Pratt. I've talked extensively w/ Dr. Cooke about such people, and have even showed interviews given by my prof w/ Thompson at one of the *nix group meetings I run at school.
Furthermore, I'm very good friends w/ a volunteer at GNU, and keep up w/ all of RMS's posts and such. Not to be outdone, I've also humbly requested the presence of ESR at a meeting of mine in April, and he's accepted the invitation.
I think it's safe to say I'm not giving into the "web hype-monkeys". I simply stated that I share many of the same view and opinions.
-Will the Chill
Sorry, guys. What I MEANT to say was that this was a good uptime considering it's running kernel 2.2.13.
-Will the Chill
It's called respect. I have a very high amount of respect for Rob, and others like him. The very simple fact that many geeks today aren't able to find suitable role-models in their everyday lives will lend this argument even more credibility. I will accept, to a certain extent, Rob's posts to be pretty authoratative. I've read /. for years, and am able to honestly say that I agree w/ pretty much everything the guy posts. Is it so bad that I happen to share roughly the same opinions w/ someone who is substantially more noteworthy than myself? It's not always about being a follower, you know...
-Will the Chill
The two major differences between us being that you posted anonymously, and were moderated at a 0. Just because I like to talk about my uptime doesn't mean I'm bragging. And CmdrTaco even said, IF your uptime isn't sacred to you, update the kernel. If Rob will acknowledge that uptimes are important, then that's good enough for me.
-Will the Chill