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Hi Gregory, The alice project wants to be able to setup clusters without writing specialized config files for each one. One impediment is the configuration of supervisors, which specifically addresses. The other is automatic discovery of the head node. I beleive they are working on a side system to be able to do this without any special config file. I don't know what algorithm or other services they are using to accomplish this. The additional options that are being added are "fixed" for all possible configurations. So, if choose to use those options, you can drop using other options that require you to actually sit down with a calculator. So, mentally it becomes 0-config though you have to "opt" to not think :-) Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory J. Sharp" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Andrew Hanushevsky" <[log in to unmask]> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>; "Peter Elmer" <[log in to unmask]>; "Fons Rademakers" <[log in to unmask]>; "Derek Feichtinger" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>; "Guenter Kickinger" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:11 AM Subject: Re: 0 Config et. al > > On 17Aug2005, at 02:30 , Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have been investigating on how to meet various needs in terms of >> 0-config clusters and simplifying the overall setup. The two main items >> that were brought up: 1) 0-config, and 2) combining the xrootd and olbd >> so >> that one does not have to deal with two daemons seem like workable >> solutions that, in fact, are very related. So, here is a proposal and >> please feel free to rip it apart :-) > > Andy, > > Could you please clarify what you mean by "0-config". Is this only in > respect of configuring supervisors? If it is supposed to be broader than > that, then adding yet more config file options seems like you are working > with very large values of "0" :-) > > -- > Gregory J. Sharp email: [log in to unmask] > Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory url: http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/ > ~gregor > Cornell University ph: +1 607 255 4882 > Ithaca, NY 14853 fax: +1 607 255 8062 > > >