User:ArdentPerf

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I signed up here to start the RAC Attack - Oracle Cluster Database at Home book.

I occasionally hang out on FreeNode as the user cheboygan. In addition to the Yahoo ID in my userbox, I'm also available for chat on AIM, GTalk, MSN and ICQ.

Books

I steal good ideas from these wikibooks.

• Blender 3D: Noob to Pro - great organization for collaborative project
• Using SPSS and PASW - lots of fair use screenshots
• Engineering Acoustics - nice cover
• European History - nice navigation
• LaTeX

Links

• Special:Upload
• Template:Navbox
• {{tl}}
• Book Tool
• Collection Extension Wishlist
• mwlib.rl git repo
• PediaPress Bug Tracking (Trac)
• User:Derbeth/javaLatex - might have to use this if I can't get the built-in PDF rendering to work satisfactorily

Notes

RAC Attack on EC2

• Research
  • XEN/KVM virt doesn't seem possible on EC2 (which is xen-based)
  • LXC/VServer/OpenVZ containers don't support some kernel-level operations (modules, etc) - not sure if this would be a problem, but so much of clusterware runs as root... seems risky to me. also i think we lose a little of the teaching value since the setup becomes less and less like any possible real-life scenario.
  • QEMU is way slow - i don't think it's feasable
• Currently I think UML is best bet
  • SCAS patches are not yet included in any kernels (ubuntu or vanilla)
    • Will try without patching host first, for simplicity. I think performance with guest-only SCAS will be sufficient for educational uses. (When I first started doing RAC on VMs it was before x86 instruction set even had virt extensions.)
  • Will use vnc more for graphical network install/kickstart
  • Thinking vncserver (not xhost) for graphical environment after startup
  • Include instructions for putty with port forwarding

Subpages

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