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CFF 2008 Project Proposal Evaluation has completed


The CFF 2008 project proposal evaluation has completed. We have evaluated all the proposals and sent mails individually to the project teams. Email has been sent only to the primary email id.

If you have submitted and evaluation and still did not hear from us, please mail codeforfreedom@sun.com with the following information

1. Primary email id
2. Project Name

Most of the proposals have been either Accepted, Rejected or marked as Duplicate.

Some of the proposals are in Pending state where the evaluator has asked for missing information from the participant. If you happen to get such an email, respond immediately to the evaluator with the missing information. If we do not get this information within 2nd Feb 2009, we will be rejecting the proposal.

Please refer to
http://groups.google.com/group/CodeForFreedom/browse_thread/thread/6f7c2e7bf1d2515b

No modifications to the team will be allowed any more. i.e You can not change the team members any more. Hence please don't send any such requests.

Wishing you all best of luck for the final round of CFF 2008

Thanks,
CFF 2008 Team
http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/


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BOJUG Jan 2009 Meet


In todays BOJUG meet Satish gave a presentation on Framemaker.

Getting your feet wet with Freemarker (http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/)** - Sathish Kumar, Senior Engineer & Consultant, STARMARK

  • Basics of Template Engines" -Where to use it and where we should not ?
  • How Freemarker is used in "Struts 2" applications?

Pics are at 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=85449&l=13332&id=583231662

 
 
 
 

Solaris Cluster 3.2U2


Solaris Cluster 3.2U2 got released yesterday. This release contains the zone cluster feature. Thus one can make clusters made up of zones. Now isn't it really cool. Well I find it even cooler since I have been working on zone cluster project :)

Top New and Enhanced Features

1. Virtualization

Solaris Cluster includes extended Solaris Container support for applications such as Oracle RAC databases enabling highly available consolidated services at lower cost.

  • Solaris Container Cluster: Allows the creation of fully isolated virtual clusters based on Solaris Container virtual nodes. Distributed applications such as Oracle RAC databases and in the near future solutions such as MySQL can be run in separate virtual clusters. Multiple databases or database version can be consolidated into one physical cluster for highly available consolidated service.
2. High Availability

Solaris Cluster is enabling increased High Availability levels through more monitoring capabilities and improved configuration verification tools.

  • Quorum Monitoring: Provides continuous monitoring of all types of quorum devices including quorum server and sends notifications about failures, enabling proactive maintenance.
  • Configuration Checker: Checks for vulnerable cluster configurations regularly and rapidly, limiting failures due to mis-configuration throughout the life-time of the cluster
3. Flexibility and Ease of Use

Solaris Cluster is improving flexibility and ease of use and support more configurations.

  • Optional Fencing: Fine-grained control of the usage of fencing enables use of shared storage by systems outside the cluster and inclusion of new storage with limited or no support of SCSI based fencing.
  • Software Quorum: Disks that do not support SCSI reservation can be used as quorum disks thanks to a new quorum device protocol.
  • Optional dedicated partition: a lofi device can be used on Solaris 10 for the Solaris Cluster global-devices namespace as an alternative to a dedicated partition.
  • Exclusive IP in Solaris Container: supported with Solaris Cluster HA agents.
  • Oracle Data Guard: supported with Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition.
  • IPsec: supported on the cluster interconnect.
  • Sun StorageTek Availability Suite: supported in Solaris Container with Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition.
4. New supported applications and agent features

Solaris Cluster is supporting even more applications such as Informix IDS and applications versions out-of-the-box to facilitate integration and deployment.'

Read and view more about the  announcement here

 
 
 
 

Solaris Cluster for High Availability and Disaster Recovery


 
 
 
 

Happy New Year to CAs from IEC


 
 
 
 

Second Bug Fix to OHAC


Lalith On 16th Jan 2009, the second OHAC bug fix, contributed by Lalith Suresh, student and Sun Campus Ambassador from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur,  went into the OHAC gate. I was the sponsor for this bug.

I first met Lalith in the CA induction program in Bangalore and later on came to know that he was very interested in OHAC. As a part of the induction program he had given a talk on clustering and he is also working on HA-Cron and HA-Zabbix agents for OHAC.

Sponsor Request for CR 4616225
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=88084

Code Review for CR  4616225
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=88750 

Read about the first OHAC Bug Fix here.


 
 
 
 
 


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