[Rocks-Discuss] Good Luck Mason and Greg!
Philip Papadopoulos
It is both with pride and sadness that we see Mason Katz and Greg
Bruno moving on to a commercial startup opportunity at ClusterCorp.
The three of us started the project in 2000 to "Make clusters easy"
and have seen our
way through dozens of public releases, 1000s of deployed clusters and
more than 2000 users of the open source toolkit. It's with great
pride that I see my two colleagues "spread their wings" and move to
critical leadership
positions in taking ClusterCorp to new heights. On a personal note,
I'll miss seeing
them on a daily basis.
The current open source Rocks will continue to be released, supported and
enhanced at UCSD. My current NSF Award provides funding through 2012. And over
the years, we've added talented developers like Anoop Rajendra to the
team. While funding is always a challenge, I've successfully found ways to keep
Rocks "in business" for the last decade.
I want to add my very personal "Good Luck Mason and Greg!" Here are best
wishes for success in this new and exciting phase of your professional
careers. Thanks for all the good times, great ideas, and friendship over the
last 10+ years.
Phil
--
Philip Papadopoulos, PhD
University of California, San Diego
858-822-3628 (Ofc)
619-331-2990 (Fax)
Sudarshan Wadkar
feature at ClusterCorp. Your help on the mailing list is highly
appreciated !
--
~$udhi
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie
"It's always our decision who we are"
- Robert Solomon in Waking Life
Roy Dragseth
Good luck to both of you, Greg and Mason! And thanks for all the great work
and help you have given the last decade.
I guess you will be turning up at the next Rocks-a-palooza with designer suits
and sponsor badges...
r.
--
The Computer Center, University of Tromsø, N-9037 TROMSØ Norway.
phone:+47 77 64 41 07, fax:+47 77 64 41 00
Roy Dragseth, Team Leader, High Performance Computing
Direct call: +47 77 64 62 56. email: roy.dr...@uit.no
GroverHaskin, Kim
Kim Grover-Haskin
Texas Woman's University
Sent from my iPhone
Paul Kopec
both the best of luck in your new endeavors.
--
Paul Kopec
Project Manager
University of Michigan
Dept. of Human Genetics
1241 E. Catherine Street
5928 Buhl Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0618
734-763-5277 (fax)
jean-francois prieur
(you haven't been bad either Phil ;) ), it certainly helped me become the
Rocks admin I am today!
Good luck for your future ventures and hope to still see you on the list
sometimes.
Regards,
JF Prieur
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/npaci-rocks-discussion/attachments/20110228/39fd37c3/attachment.html
Dominic Daninger
Dominic Daninger | do...@nor-tech.com
Vice President of Engineering
901 East Cliff Road, Suite 101, Burnsville, MN 55337
Direct 952-229-2070 | Toll Free 800-800-4860 | Fax 952-229-2061
Cooper, Trevor
You will be missed at UCSD.
Trevor
Trevor Cooper, M.Sc.
Data Systems Programmer / System Administrator
University of California, San Diego
Multimodal Imaging Laboratory
8950 Villa La Jolla Dr., Suite C101
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: (858) 822-4330
Fax: (858) 534-1078
Jerome
answers in the email list, helping a lot of clusters administrators all
around the world. The best reason i'm using Rocks it's because of this
helping staff!
Good luck for your new profesional project.
--
-- J�r�me
Si vous ne pouvez expliquer un concept � un enfant de six ans,
c'est que vous ne le comprenez pas compl�tement.
(Albert Einstein)
Wm. Josiah Erikson
Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless
-----Original message-----
From: Jerome <jer...@ibt.unam.mx>
To: Discussion of Rocks Clusters <npaci-rocks...@sdsc.edu>
Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 17:02:10 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: [Rocks-Discuss] Good Luck Mason and Greg!
Thank's a lot for Greg and Mason, i'm sure that we will miss your quick
answers in the email list, helping a lot of clusters administrators all
around the world. The best reason i'm using Rocks it's because of this
helping staff!
Good luck for your new profesional project.
--
-- Jérôme
Si vous ne pouvez expliquer un concept à un enfant de six ans,
c'est que vous ne le comprenez pas complètement.
(Albert Einstein)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
Ian Kaufman
of weeks ago).
But, might as well make it public - thanks Mason and Greg. You two
were a great help as I was thrown into the ROCKS fire when I first
returned to UC San Diego five years ago. Especially since I had to
deal with hardware that didn't quite fit the preferred ROCKS mold
(yeah, Toshiba Satellite convertible tablets with Intel video chips
and Marvell Yukon NICs - for a portable display wall of all things
...)
Good luck and keep in touch.
Ian
--
Ian Kaufman
Research Systems Administrator
UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering ikaufman AT ucsd DOT edu
Douglas Guptill
#rocks losing -gb
+1 on the best of luck to both Greg and Mason.
Douglas.
Joe Landman
> Dear Rocks Community,
>
> It is both with pride and sadness that we see Mason Katz and Greg
> Bruno moving on to a commercial startup opportunity at ClusterCorp.
Ahhh ... joining the dark side. Welcome!
Wishing much success in this endeavor.
--
Joseph Landman, Ph.D
Founder and CEO
Scalable Informatics Inc.
email: lan...@scalableinformatics.com
web : http://scalableinformatics.com
http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster
phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121
fax : +1 866 888 3112
cell : +1 734 612 4615
Steden Klaus
Mason, Greg,
Good luck and congratulations to both of you. Although I don't deal with
ROCKS much anymore I do look back fondly at my time as the local cluster
guru, something that would not have been possible without your hard work,
patience, humility, generosity, and sheer brain power.
all the best,
Klaus
On 2/28/11 12:49 AM, "Philip Papadopoulos" <philip.pa...@gmail.com>
etched on stone tablets:
Tim Carlson
made to the Rocks code.
Phil is going to have his work cut out for him trying to recruit
developers with similar skills and the patience to deal with our mailing
list ;-)
Thanks again for everything over the years.
Tim
--
-------------------------------------------
Tim Carlson, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Jon Forrest
can get in their thinly veiled attempts
toward total world domination.
There aren't many projects as good
as Rocks, and there aren't many people
as good as Greg and Mason.
Jon
Florent Angly
you the best for the future.
Florent
Mason J. Katz
It was a bittersweet and difficult decision to leave UCSD.
For those who don't know, the short history of Rocks is thus. Phil,
Greg, and I all met working for Professor Andrew Chien doing Windows
clustering. A year later our group split apart and was eventually
reformed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center with Phil as our group
head. It was Phil who coined our mission statement of "Make clusters
easy", which is so commonly used by companies today. It was also Phil
that always worked hard to keep us fed with grant dollars, not an
easy job, but one he excels at.
Our first release of Rocks was at SuperComputing 2000, with several
key pieces written on the show floor (insert-ethers, being one of
these). Technologies have significantly changed over the last 10 years
(our first release was on a floppy), and not only have Clusters become
the default HPC platform, but Rocks has also become the default Linux
HPC stack. The former, being due strictly to economics, and the latter
to our amazing community of users and developers. Thank you so much to
everyone that has been using, complaining and helping us to improve
this software.
Because of the Rocks project, the 10 years have been some of the best
of my career and personal life. Again, this is due to the amazing
community of users and developers.
I've now transitioned into my new role with Clustercorp, and while we
are not prepared to publish our roadmap at this time, Clustercorp as a
company is committed to preserving the open-source development of
Rocks and is fully supportive of Greg and me helping to maintain and
advance the open-source code base. Following the tradition established
with Scalable Systems many years ago, UCSD will continue to provide
direct CVS access to the core of Rocks to both Greg and me.
Actions will speak louder than any words of this subject, so I ask
everyone to keep an eye out for Clustercorp as both members of the
user community and of the development community.
Thank you to everyone for the great academic ride, and I'm thrilled to
continue this ride into new territory.
Mason Katz
phone: 1.619.800.0655
skype: masonkatz
twitter: masonkatz
Boyce,Edward
I, too, extend my congratulations and wishes for the best of luck for both you and Greg.
I do have one question: Does this mean an absolute end to your roll as maintainer of the Viz Roll? If so (and I hope otherwise), do you have any suggestions about who might be a successor?
Best Regards,
Ed
---------------------------------------------------------
Ed Boyce
Application Developer II
University of Connecticut Health Center
Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling
(860) 679-3706 (landline)
(413) 244-6453 (cell)
bo...@uchc.edu
---------------------------------------------------------
________________________________________
From: npaci-rocks-dis...@sdsc.edu [npaci-rocks-dis...@sdsc.edu] On Behalf Of Mason J. Katz [mason...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:23 PM
To: Discussion of Rocks Clusters
Subject: Re: [Rocks-Discuss] Good Luck Mason and Greg!
Mason J. Katz
The longer answer is the future of the Viz Roll has been uncertain at
UCSD for over a year now. The size of the user community and
availability of production open-source Viz middleware has made this
exceedingly difficult. For example, CGLX while free for academics is
not free for everyone so we could not include it on the Viz Roll.
The most recent release of the Roll is pretty good, and now that it
auto-updates the nVidia driver this should be sufficient for the next
year.
I'm not going to speak for UCSD on this, but I will say I will help
anyone who wants to take ownership of the code and move it forward.
The current Viz Roll software can be accessed on git.rocksclusters.org
(http://git.rocksclusters.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=core/viz/.git;a=summary).
$ git clone http://git.rocksclusters.org/git/core/viz/.git
Mason Katz
phone: 1.619.800.0655
skype: masonkatz
twitter: masonkatz