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[Gluster-devel] Feature Idea.
From: |
Nick Clarke |
Subject: |
[Gluster-devel] Feature Idea. |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Mar 2007 21:15:19 +0000 (GMT) |
Hi,
-- Sorry to double post but my previous message got messed up somewhere along
the way.
I stumbled across Gluster while looking for a Linux cluster system and
instantly had a big smile on my face after a couple of clicks. This is a great
project and not a small one.
I did have an idea for a feature, not sure if it would something for Gluster or
the scheduler.
Power Save: The ability to Suspend/Sleep/Shutdown nodes (or groups of nodes)
when they are not needed.
Node states:
- Suspend: Do not start up until a set time for example.
- Sleep: Faster start up
- Shutdown: Longer to start up but no power consumption
Node type examples:
- Data Centre
Achieve
Live
.
- HPC
Render Farm
Web Server
.
- Etc..
- Timed Suspend/Sleep/Shutdown
7pm 9am for example
- Rule based power saver based on node type e.g. Data Centre, HPC node etc..
An example: A group of data centre nodes could be used for achieve and
rarely used, so they could be set to Suspend after 2 hours of no use and only
started when something is required. As their function is storing achieved data
the user would allow for a small start up delay (common files could be cache on
other nodes).
- Suspend/Sleep/Shutdown when not needed. Wake-On-Lan when needed (example:
incoming large job, data access or during a time window).
This would allow me and Im sure others to save a lot of running costs.
Nick
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