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3 July 2007 Athena Release Team Status Report
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From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 16:07:33 -0400
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Team Name: Athena Release Team
Report Date: 3 July 2007
Submitted by: Bill Cattey
Team URL: http://web.mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/
Release URL: http://web.mit.edu/release/www/
Accomplishments past period:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
Last Month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
DELAYED: Finish Solaris 10 installer integration for summer's Athena
full release.(Still awaiting server upgrade.)
DELAYED: Create new Linux installer based on a more current RHEL 4
Kernel that includes necessary drivers for Dell Optiplex 745.
DELAYED: Continue investigating installing VMWare player on Athena
machines. (Still waiting for permission to distribute.)
DELAYED: Investigate a mechanism to offer special video drivers to
cluster systems by default and to private systems as an opt-in.
(Developer was on vacation.)
Community Milestones Met:
Patch release currently scheduled for June 18 containing Firefox 2.0,
the patch to fix the IBM S50 "clock runs backwards" problem, update
of Linux to RHEL 4.5, and Solaris security patches.
Other Accomplishments:
* Integrated Solaris package with latest Flash 7 plugin for the next
patch release.
* Integrated latest JDK 1.5 for the next patch release.
* Investigated the status of /bin/ksh in the release and made plans
to add it to the next patch release for Linux.
Next month's goals:
ONGOING: Testing and bug fixing of current Athena release.
OLD: Finish Solaris 10 installer integration for summer's Athena full
release.(Still awaiting server upgrade.)
OLD: Create new Linux installer based on a more current RHEL 4 Kernel
that includes necessary drivers for Dell Optiplex 745.
OLD: Continue investigating installing VMWare player on Athena machines.
OLD: Investigate a mechanism to offer special video drivers to
cluster systems by default and to private systems as an opt-in.
Next Community Milestone(s):
Patch release when ready containing JDK 1.5 update, Flash plugin
update on Solaris, proprietary video driver support for Linux,
security patches for Solaris, and possibly VMWare Player.
Issues:
Kerberos 4 mail clients like mh, xmh, and exmh are going to die when
Kerberos 4 is shut down. Our plan is to investigate amending inc to
support Kerberos 5 as soon as the mail servers get Kerberos 5 support.
JDK 1.6 appears to interact poorly with AFS home directories under
Solaris, taking several minutes to start.
Sidney-Pacific (the graduate dorm) bought four Dimension 9200s to
upgrade their Athena cluster and found that they were unable to
install them. They are waiting on us for a new rev of the installer.
Key learnings:
Additional comments:
Athena Monthly machine counts:
Method: On install, machines get a unique ID. Each day every system
reports its existence to a central syslog. This method over-counts
systems installed multiple times. Systems running Athena than 9.0 or
earlier are not counted.
Summary: Here we see the effect of cluster renewal beginning to
replace Suns with Linux systems.
SYSTYPE 01/07 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 06/07 Delta
LINUX 813 822 810 798 774 792 +18
SUN 329 337 320 315 308 314 +6
Count of systems registered for RHN (Non Athena update):
Date 01/07 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 06/07 Delta
Total 1541 1620 1764 1811 1840 1824 -16
Inactive 791 860 937 969 987 969 -18
Active 750 760 827 842 853 855 +2
Monthly Athena Login counts:
Method: By reviewing of the logs of the service that makes
personalized notifications to users at login time, we are able to count
the number of unique Athena logins. Here we display the total number of
logins over a four week period, the number of logins by unique user ID
and the median number of logins per unique user ID.
Date: 01/07 02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 06/07
Total: 177729 253845 225843 250846 217514 143980
Unique: 9270 10108 9838 9867 9730 7907
Median: 5 10 9 10 8 4
Breakdown for current month:
(Total of unique logins will be less than the sum of the sources,
since each source login only gets counted once.)
Total logins for four week period ending June 30, 2007:
143980 ( other 110232 quickstation 15894 cluster 17854 )
Unique logins for four week period:
7907 ( other 4929 quickstation 4106 cluster 3019 )
Median logins for four week period:
4 ( other 4 quickstation 2 cluster 3 )
