[General] KOC deploys Sun Linux cluster

[Majed B.]

Whether contracted or not, they're not good enough; the same applies
to Al-Babtain's Linux admins. I'm not bashing, just telling you from
the experience of those who have tried both.

Tivoli is the management application for the storage. We have 2 IBM
SANs here at work, managed by Tivoli Storage Manager, and it's been
doing a good work. Yesterday, it detected that one of the disks is
reporting errors, but hasn't failed yet, and it was up to me, to
either wait for it to fail by itself, or I could fail it manually and
replace it.
After failing the drive, the degraded array used the hot-spare disk
and started reconstructing the data, even though I had put the
replacement disk for the dead one. After reconstruction was done, it
copied the data from the hot-spare to the replacement!
Of course, this was the job of the controller, but the storage manager
provided A LOT of info and guided steps on what to do & how.



On Jan 16, 2008 9:01 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
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> wow thats something new!, is it internally managed by ministry staff or
> outsourced via another private sector?
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>  bashar abdullah wrote, On 1/15/2008 11:51 AM:
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> The control center at ministry of power and water runs on all Linux SUSE
> servers and mostly open source tools.
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> On Jan 15, 2008 10:00 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com > wrote:
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> > As far as I know, Al-Diar doesn't have the people to administrate
> > Linux, and only sell the boxes... also, the oil sector has its own
> > Linux-experienced admins, which is why it went for the solution.
> >
> > I haven't seen any Linux cluster, but I heard that QualityNet has
> > moved to one, and I know that Dar Al-Shifa Hospital, runs its software
> > (some of it is even open-source CRM) on Linux & IBM AIX Unix.
> >
> > KMEFIC (http://www.kmefic.com.kw/) used to use AIX, but because of the
> > *high* fees for support (I didn't see the figures as high, considering
> > the amount of hardware used), they're moving to Sun Unix boxes now...
> > Their setup may not work on a Linux-cluster, as they run a
> > multi-national cluster, and their clusters on sophisticated enterprise
> > technologies from IBM (HACMP).
> > As far as I know, their portal is Java based, so they might be able to
> > run the web-portal on Linux boxes, to reduce the over-all cost. (Run
> > it with tomcat, or WebSphere, if they need high levels of
> > administration & customization).
> >
> > The majority of the companies in Kuwait go for Windows, because of the
> > abundance of people who call themselves Windows Administrators (ask
> > them to optimize the performance of a server, and they'll just pop a
> > few fuses in their heads). If there was a company that offers on-site
> > or off-site Linux Administration services, professionally, not just
> > people with lame certificates, I believe such a company would have a
> > lot of opportunities.
> >
> > Just my 5 fils...
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> > On Jan 15, 2008 12:34 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
> wrote:
> > > Originally from http://q8linux.net/article372.html :
> > >
> > > Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has completed deployment of a Sun and
> > > Linux-based high performance computing cluster, which will be used for
> > > oil reservoir simulations and other intensive computing tasks.
> > >
> > > The 154 node cluster is based on Sun Fire x4100 entry level servers
> > > using AMD Opteron processors, running Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition.
> > > The deployment was managed by Sun executive partner Kuwait Diyar
> Company.
> > >
> > > According to KOC, the company was looking for a powerful, yet cost
> > > effective solution that would enable them to run simulations much more
> > > quickly than previously, and also tackle multiple tasks at once. The
> > > system has now cut the time required for complex simulation studies from
> > > days to weeks.
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> > >
> > > amazing setup indeed :) anyone seen such setup or even smaller cluster
> > > in any other government / large enterprises in Kuwait?
> > >
> > >
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