Date Posted: December 21, 2001
Overview
What is Enhanced Cluster Tools (ECT) for Linux?
ECT for Linux (xCSM) has graduated.
Some of the features in xCSM have been put into the main product of CSM, such as the kickstart templates, etc. The xCSM documents, downloads, and installation instructions are now available at the xCSM Utilities site.About the technology author(s)
Janet Ellsworth, Bruce Potter, Sean Safron, Vallard Benincosa, Jennifer Cranfill
Janet Ellsworth is a senior software engineer at IBM Poughkeepsie. She is responsible for strategy and architecture of HPC clusters using CSM and other cluster software. Ms. Ellsworth has worked on a variety of system management projects over the past several years, both for AIX and the RS/6000 SP.
Bruce Potter is a senior software engineer at IBM working on clustering and system management software for Linux and AIX. He has been working on graphical interfaces and system management tools for UNIX since probably before you graduated from grade school.
Sean Safron has been a software engineer at IBM since 1989. He has been working on the RS/6000 SP since it was called the SP1. Mr. Safron has written graphical user interfaces for the SP and for RS/6000, and he currently works on Cluster Systems Management for Linux and AIX. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1989 and an M.S. in Computer Science from Marist College in 1998.
Vallard Benincosa is a software engineer at IBM. He has been a developer for CSM and currently deploys large clusters at customer sites. Mr. Benincosa is a major contributor to xCSM. He is a native of Huntington Beach, California.
Jennifer Cranfill is a software engineer for the IBM Server Group in Poughkeepsie, NY. She is currently developing pleasant maintenance procedures for Linux and AIX clusters. Ms. Cranfill earned her B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Lewis and Clark College in 2001.
