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November 18, 2019: A Conversation with Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan
You might be interested to know that there have been only 12 lieutenant governors in Georgia's history, going back to 1947 when the position was created. Four went on to become governor. One became lieutenant governor after having served as governor. Four others tried for the state's highest office and failed. Two left politics after their term in office.
It is safe to say that the 12th occupant, Geoff Duncan, didn't have the job on his radar when he graduated from Georgia Tech. A pitcher for the Yellow Jackets, he was signed by the Miami Marlins organization and made it as far as the organization's AAA-affiliate, Calgary Cannons, of the Pacific Coast League, until a shoulder injury ended his career.
Disappointing to be sure, but Duncan told me in his office last week, "I was prepared. I had written a business plan to start a marketing company as a kind of insurance policy if I didn't make enough money to retire from baseball. I had to pull that business plan out of a folder about two weeks after I got released." It worked.
He and his wife, Brooke, started a small marketing company in their living room, grew it to a big one, sold it and moved on. So how did a former pro baseball player end up in politics and in the lieutenant governor's office?
At church one day – the Duncans attend Northpoint Community Church in Cummings – their pastor, Andy Stanley, challenged the congregants to get involved in their community instead of grousing. Duncan says, "One of the options that he threw out was to run for public office. I looked at Brooke in the parking lot after the service and said, 'Let's go run for office.' She looked at me and said, 'I did not hear that in the sermon.' So, we discussed it for a while and then decided I should run for the State House of Representatives." He did and beat the incumbent by 55 votes.
After five years in the House, Duncan ran for and won the job as Georgia's 12th lieutenant governor. Why that job? "I quickly realized in the five years I spent in the House that I was really good at policy and not very good at the politics. I really just kind of woke up one day and wanted to either be in charge or go home."
What he is in charge of has sometimes been seen as the Rodney Dangerfield of state politics. Unlike the House of Representatives, where the speaker rules supreme, the Lieutenant Governor doesn't have the power to appoint the chairs or members to the various senate committees. That is done by a Committee on Assignments of which Duncan is a member. If that bothers him, he doesn't let it show. Rather, he calls the process "collaborative" and says he welcomes that kind of governance.
Duncan says, "I want somebody who was elected to the Senate, who's put their life on hold, their business on hold for 40 legislative days, three calendar months out of the year, to come here and feel like their voice matters in every committee meeting."
While the Lieutenant Governor is president of the senate which is no small matter, it is clear this is a power-sharing arrangement, not a top-down management style as in the old days of Georgia politics. Much depends on his being able to get people to follow his lead. I would not bet against him. He is charming, whipsaw-smart and a competitor. As they say in sports, he has all the tools.
We talked about his legislative priorities. He would like to see Georgia be the technology capital of the East coast, more broadband into the rural areas of the state and better computer training for high school students. He is also pushing for more competition and more transparency in health care.
I asked Duncan about his pledge to only serve two terms as lieutenant governor. He says he plans to honor that commitment and is even considering a constitutional amendment to limit that office to two terms. As for his own plans beyond that, he is understandably coy.
As I was leaving, I reminded the Lieutenant Governor that I remain unalterably opposed to using public money for private school scholarships, which I am certain will raise its ugly head in the next session. He smiled and said, "I think we may need to have some additional conversations." I hope so. I like this guy.


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by Rachel A. Ewing March 27, 20137:49 am December 2, 2016
Dusting for Prints from a Fossil Fish to Understand Evolutionary Change
Dorsal view of the dermal armor of the newly identified fossil fish species, Phyllolepis thomsoni. Credit: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
In 370 million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania.
Fossils of armored fishes like this one, a phyllolepid placoderm, are known for the distinctive ornamentation of ridges on their exterior plates. As with many such fossils, scientists often find the remains of these species as impressions in stone, not as three-dimensional versions of their skeletons. Therefore, in the process of studying and describing this fish's anatomy, scientists took advantage of a technique that may look a lot like it was stolen from crime scene investigators.
In the video below, Dr. Ted Daeschler shows the fossil and a rubber cast made by pouring latex into its natural impression in the rock. Once the latex hardened, Daeschler peeled it out and dusted its surface with a fine powder to better show the edges of the bony plates and the shapes of fine ridges on the fish's bony armor – a lot like dusting for fingerprints to show minute ridges left on a surface. With this clearer view, Daeschler and colleagues were better able to prepare a detailed scientific description of the new species.
This placoderm, named Phyllolepis thomsoni, is one of two new Devonian fish species described by Daeschler in the Bicentennial issue of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with different co-authors. The other new species is a lobe-finned fish discovered in northern Canada.
Both the Pennsylvania placoderm and the Canadian lobe-finned fish species are from the late Devonian period, at a time long before dinosaurs walked the Earth – but, geologically speaking, not long before the very first species began to walk on land. Daeschler studies Devonian species in particular to help describe the evolutionary setting that gave rise to the first vertebrate species with limbs. He has dug for Devonian species in Pennsylvania since 1993, and in northern Canada since 1999.
Illustration of the Devonian armored fish Phyllolepis thomsoni as it may have looked when alive, by Jason Poole, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Honoring A Rich History of Pennsylvania Paleontology
Daeschler, a vice president and associate curator at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, and an associate professor in Drexel's College of Arts and Sciences, and co-author Dr. John A. Long, a leading authority on placoderms from Flinders University in Australia, named the species in honor of Dr. Keith S. Thomson.
Thomson, the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society, has been a mentor and colleague to many Devonian fossil researchers, including Daeschler. Thomson has formerly held positions including President and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Director of the Oxford University Museum, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University.
Asked for comment on the discovery named in his honor, Thomson noted his long professional connection with the Devonian fossil beds in Pennsylvania that Daeschler studies:
The Devonian beds around Renovo PA were worked extensively by my old professor at Harvard, Alfred Sherwood Romer and his associates, in the 1950s. They got some very good material of fishes but gave up on the site as a potential source of the very earliest four-legged vertebrates. In 1965 Romer suggested that I have a go but there had been no major erosion on the sites and therefore nothing much new had become exposed. I moved on to other things, but [in 1993] when Ted asked about possible projects in PA I gave him all the old notebooks, including mine, and off he went. In the intervening period there had been some major roadwork, new exposures were made, and on the Sunday evening of his very first weekend trip Ted came to the house and showed me a part of the shoulder of a tetrapod. Once we had looked at every which way and decided there was no other explanation, he causally reached into his bag and said "in that case, I have another one." The rest is history — a history of very hard, careful, work, a whole team of collectors, some local, and brilliant discoveries of superb material particularly of fishes of every kind. So I am delighted by the success of this work over the past twenty years and flattered to become associated with it by having a species named after me. (There is a certain symmetry to this as long ago I named one of the species that had been collected by Romer after my wife!)
A rubber cast and the impression fossil of the armored fish Phyllolepis thomsoni.
Note to news media: Please contact me (Rachel Ewing, raewing@drexel.edu 215.895.2614) for contact info to interview Daeschler this week, while he is out of the office, or to request additional background info.
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John F. Bales III	 on March 29, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Congratulations to Ted Daeschler. His work and discoveries are truly inspirational!

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This week for new DVD and Blu-ray releases we have book thiefs, Barbies, a new Jason Statham movie and a few other odds and ends. Amongst those "ends," an Anchorman sequel, a new distribution spin on a western with aliens in it,and some other classics. Take a peak.
Starring Sophie Nélisse, Emily Watson and Geoffrey Rush
Starring Kelly Sheridan, Katie Crown, Mark Oliver
Homefront (Two-Disc Combo Pack: Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD with UltraViolet)
Starring Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder and Kate Bosworth
Inside Llewyn Davis [Blu-ray]
Starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman
Out of the Furnace [Blu-ray]
Starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck
New Movies and TV on Blu-ray and DVD
Other Titles This Week…
Accel World Set 2 [Blu-ray]
Airplane/ Airplane II [Blu-ray]
Beyond Outrage [Blu-ray]
Bubble Guppies: Animals Everywhere
Commitment [Blu-ray]
Cowboys & Aliens - Extended Edition (Blu-ray + DIGITAL HD with UltraViolet)
Dennis The Menace - Volume One - 33 Episodes
Digimon Data Squad Season 5
Dogs 1976 (Blu Ray) (Remastered Widescreen Edition) [Blu-ray]
El Dorado [Blu-ray]
Enemies Closer
Eugene Onegin [Blu-ray]
Flintstone Kids: Rockin in Bedrock
George Washington (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray/DVD)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral [Blu-ray]
Hatari [Blu-ray]
Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor & Shugaku Toshi Keppu-roku OVA (Season 4)
In Fear
In The Heat of the Night Season 2 and Season 3 (Carroll O'Connor)
In The Heat of the Night Season 6
Iron Sky: DIRECTOR'S CUT (STEELBOOK BLU-RAY/DVD COMBO)
Mademoiselle C
Monsters VS Aliens: Supersonic Joyride
Nova: Great Cathedral Mystery
Outsider, The
Psycho-Pass: Part One (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Psycho-Pass: Part Two (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)
Rogue: Complete First Season
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Sensation - The Story of The Who's Tommy
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With fewer than seven weeks before they depart for Normandy and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, cadets from the 1705 Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corp (BC Dragoons) are making a final fundraising push to help defray costs for the trip.
On Wednesday, April 24, organizers will host a fundraiser at The Kal from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m.
There will also be 50/50 draws, raffle baskets and a pair of Westjet tickets up for grabs. The evening will be cash-only. Two local bands, the Okanagan Pipes and Drums, will provide music.
The nine participating cadets, Capt. Lisa Devine and a number of parents will attend the D-Day ceremony on Juno Beach and represent Royal Canadian Legion members, Canadian cadet organizations, B.C. and Canada.
To date, the cadets have received a $2,000 donation from the Coldstream Women's Institute and significant donations from the Oyama, Lumby and Armstrong legion branches, as well as the Lumby thrift store and the Joseph Segal Foundation in Vancouver. They have also benefited from a partnership with Chasers Bottle Depot, where supporters can donate their returned bottles to the travel fund. The cadets also worked at the Interior Provincial Exhibition in September as part of their fundraising effort and took part in grocery bagging and many bottle drives.
For the cadets and officers, the trip to Normandy will be an opportunity to take part in both a serious commemorative ceremony and sightseeing.
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FK Sjachtar Donetsk (ukrainska: ФК Шахта́р Доне́цьк ) är en ukrainsk fotbollsklubb från den till majoriteten ryskspråkiga miljonstaden Donetsk i gruv- och industriområdet Donbass i östra Ukraina. Klubben deltar sedan 1970-talet ofta i olika europeiska turneringar.

Sjachtar Donetsk vann Uefacupen 2008/2009 efter finalseger mot Werder Bremen med 2-1 efter förlängning (1-1 i ordinarie speltid) på Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadyumu i Istanbul, Turkiet den 20 maj 2009. Sjachtar blev det första ukrainska lag sedan Ukraina blev självständigt efter Sovjetunionens sönderfall som vunnit Uefacupen.

På grund av konflikten i östra Ukraina spelar klubben sedan säsongen 2014/15 sina hemmamatcher på Arena Lviv i Lviv, medan laget tränar i Kiev.

Historia

Klubben grundades i 1936 och har under sin tid bytt namn ett antal gånger, klubben hete Stachanovets Stalino när den grundades och fick sitt namn efter en legendarisk gruvarbetare Aleksej Stachanov. Sedan bytte klubben namn till Sjachtior Stalino (1946-1961) och Sjachtior Donetsk  (1961-1992). Nu heter klubben FK Sjachtar Donetsk . "Sjachtar" betyder kolgruvearbetare och klubbfärgerna, orange tröjor och svarta shorts, ska knyta an till gruvarbetarna. Det orangea för dagsljuset som möter dem efter en arbetsdag och det svarta för mörkret nere i gruvan.

Den första framgången för klubben kom 1951, det året blev klubben 3:a i det sovjetiska mästerskapet.

I början på 1960-talet, var klubben tre gånger i den sovjetiska cupfinalen och vann den1961 och 1962. Klubben var på den tiden mest känd som ett cup-lag. Klubbens mer anmärkningsvärda bedrifter började komma från mitten av 1970-talet till början av 1980-talet.

Klubben blev 2:a i sovjetiska mästerskapet 1975 och var därmed för första gången Sovjetunionens representant i Uefacupen 1976/77. 1978 blev det en 3:e plats i det sovjetiska mästerskapet och året efter blev det en 2:a plats, med ett lag anfört av Vitalij Staruchin som vann skytteligan med 26 mål. Två gånger, 1980 och 1983, tog klubben hem den sovjetiska cupen och 1983, vann laget den sovjetiska supercupen genom att besegra mästarna från FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

I det självständiga Ukraina, har Sjachtar tillsammans med Dynamo Kiev från början varit de dominerande klubbarna, Sjachtar har således blivit sämst 2:a i ukrainska ligan alla säsonger sedan 1996/1997. Sjachtar har deltagit i Uefa Champions League varje år sedan 2000/2001 och vann Uefacupen 2008/2009.

Ukrainas rikaste man Rinat Achmetov har varit president i Sjachtar sedan hans vän, mentor och föregångare på posten, Achat Bragin (kallad "Greken Alik"), tillsammans med sin bror och fyra livvakter sprängdes till döds av en bomb placerad under huvudläktaren på Sjachtars arena, det centrala Sjachtar stadion, under en match i oktober 1995.

Sjachtar startade 1999 sin fotbollsakademi. Verksamheten har i dag 3 000 ungdomsspelare från åtta år och uppåt.

Hemmaarenan i Lviv

Arena Lviv
Arena Lviv är en fotbollsarena belägen i Lviv, Ukraina och en av spelplatserna för Fotbolls-EM 2012, som har en kapacitet på 34 915 åskådare.

Arenan stod klar 2011 och är hemmaplan för det ukrainska ligalaget FC Karpaty Lviv.
På grund av inbördeskriget i östra Ukraina spelar också Sjachtar sedan säsongen 2014/15 sina hemmamatcher på Arena Lviv.

Tidigare hemmaarenor och träningsanläggning i Donetsk

Donbass Arena

Donbass Arena invigdes 29 augusti 2009 och var Sjachtars hemmaarena fram till 2014. Den hade en publikkapacitet på 50 149. Arenan var en av de sex ukrainska arenorna som användes vid Europamästerskapet i fotboll 2012. Arenan var ett 5-stjärnig Uefa-stadion, det första 5-stjärniga i Ukraina och det näst största stadion i Ukraina efter Kievs olympiastadion.
Arenan blev finansierad av Achmetov och kostade 3,2 miljarder kronor att bygga.

RSK Olimpijskij stadion
Sjachtar spelade åren innan Donbass Arena invigdes 2009 de flesta av sina hemmamatcher på det då nyrenoverade RSK Olimpijskij stadion (Lokomotiv stadion). Arenan kan ta 25 831 åskådare.

Det centrala Sjachtar stadion
Sjachtars gamla hemmaplan, Det centrala Sjachtar stadion som byggdes till klubben vid dess grundande 1936, men som sedan dess har renoverats fyra gånger, är för närvarande hemmaplan för lokalkonkurrenten FC Metalurg Donetsk. Arenan genomgick en större renovering 2000, då FC Sjachtar för första gången deltog i Champions League-gruppspelet. Arenan tar 31 718 åskådare.

Träningsanläggningen Kirsja
1999 år stod Sjachtars 43 hektar stora träningsanläggning Kirsja klar. Den är en av Europas mest luxuösa. Där finns nio upplysta fotbollsplaner av hög kvalitet varav en med konstgräs. Flera planer har markuppvärmning. Anläggningen har ett spelarhotell där Sjachtarspelarna har var sitt "hotellrum". Där finns även faciliteter som spa, basketplan, gym och restaurang.

Hemmaarena och träningsanläggning under konflikten i östra Ukraina 2014

Arena Lviv

På grund av konflikten i östra Ukraina spelar klubben säsongen 2014/15 sina hemmamatcher på Arena Lviv i Lviv, som har en kapacitet på 34 915 åskådare. Laget tränar i Kiev.

Resultat

Nationella titlar

  Sovjetisk pokalmästare: 1961, 1962, 1980, 1983
  Sovjetisk supercupmästare: 1984
  Ukrainsk mästare: 2001–02, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019-20
  Ukrainsk pokalmästare: 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  Ukrainsk supercupmästare: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017

Internationella titlar
  Uefa-cupmästare: 2008/2009

Futsal (inomhus)  (MFK Sjachtar Donetsk)
  Ukrainsk mästare: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
  Ukrainsk pokalmästare: 2003, 2004, 2006
  Ukrainsk supercupmästare: 2005, 2006, 2008

Liga- och cup-historia sedan 1977

Europeiska turneringar
 Q = Kvalifikation
 Grupp = Gruppspel
 R = Rond
 1/16 = 1/16 final
 1/8 = 1/8 final
 1/4 = 1/4 final
 1/2 = semifinal

Futsal
MFK Sjachtar Donetsk
 Uefa Futsal Cup 2005/2006: 4:e plats

Spelare

Spelartrupp

Kända spelare

Se också: :Kategori:Spelare i FK Sjachtar Donetsk.

Tränare

  Oleg Osjenkov (1960–1969)
  Oleg Bazilevitj (1972–1973)
  Viktor Nosov (1979–1985)
  Oleg Bazilevitj (1986)
  Valerij Jaremtjenko (1989–1994, 1996–1999)
  Anatolij Bysjovets (1999)
  Viktor Prokopenko (1999–2001)
  Valerij Jaremtjenko (2001–2002)
  Nevio Scala (2002)
  Bernd Schuster (2003–2004)
  Mircea Lucescu (2004–2016)
  Paulo Fonseca (2016–)

Referenser

Externa länkar
  Officiell webbplats
  Ukrainian Soccer Net
  Fansajt
  Za Boys Ultra - Fansajt

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PM to inaugurate the Projects and lays foundation stone of multiple projects in Gujarat's Somnath
By TBM Staff - Hyderabad Thursday, 19 August 2021, 7:15 PM 533
Prime Minister will be inaugurating the Somnath Promenade and Exhibition Gallery in Somnath which are among the components of the project developed under PRASHAD Scheme of Ministry of Tourism and Ahilyabai Mandir Parisar Renovation carried out by Shree Somnath Trust . He will also lay the Foundation Stone of Parvati Mata Mandir in Somnath, Gujarat through a Virtual Platform tomorrow the 20th August 2021 at 11:00 Hrs.
The PM will be joined by Sh. Amit Shah (Home Minister and Co-operation Minister, GoI),Shripad Yesso Naik (Minister of State for Tourism and Ports, Shipping & Waterways, GoI), Ajay Bhatt (Minister of State for Tourism and Defence, GoI), Vijay Rupani (Chief Minister, Gujarat), Jawahar Chawda (Tourism Minister, Gujarat) , Rajeshbhai Chudasama , Member of Parliament, Junagadh and Pravin K Leheri, Trustee- Secretary, Shree Somnath Trust.
The 'National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive' (PRASHAD) has been launched by the Ministry of Tourism with the objective of holistic development of identified pilgrimage and heritage destinations with focus on development of pilgrimage tourist destinations. Since its launch in January 2015 and as on date the Ministry has sanctioned 37 projects in 24 States with estimated expenditure of Rs. 1214.18 Cr. and a total amount of INR 675.47 Cr. has been released for these projects from FY 2014-15 to FY 2018-19 and the current financial year as on date.
Located about 94 km from Junagadh, the Somnath Temple is said to have been originally built by the moon god with gold. Dedicated to Lord Shiva, the Somnath Temple is one of the most important spiritual sites in the Hindu circuit. Believed to be the first of the 12 jyotirlingas (devotional shrines of Lord Shiva) in the country, the temple sees a large footfall every year. In the month of November, the Kartik Purnima fair organised here attracts a large number of pilgrims.
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* React to changes in resource/customer demand and reschedule accordingly.
* Follow agreed work process with regards to trip building/Moby.
* Liaising with Drivers, Country Distribution Managers and other internal departments.
* Previous experience with scheduling/planning is essential.
* Must be able to work independently and collectively as a team.
* Advantageous to have experience with transport regulations.
* Ability to learn technical and functional systems to perform effectively within the business - SAP and LBShell.
* Must have excellent PC skills.
* A knowledge of SAP and a logistical background would be an advantage.
* Must be a highly motivated, self-starting individual.
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and able to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organisation.


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Three ancient cities of Crete – abandoned and largely forgotten - are re-awakened for the modern observer. In this engrossing exhibition - Crete – Emerging Cities: Aptera, Eleutherna, Knossos - around 500 artifacts (some newly excavated) are being presented to the public for the first time. Some of the displays relate to the cities' founding myths, their religious beliefs and public lives. Others are dedicated to personal stories such as a child from Knossos buried with his toys.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 10:00-17:00, Thursday: 10:00-20:00, Sunday: 11:00-17:00.


The core function of a switch is to serve as a centralized appliance providing network access and connectivity to enterprise devices. Companies began upgrading their hubs to Ethernet switches starting some twenty years in order to improve network performance. This was achieved by the fact that rather than broadcast all data as hubs did, switches allow for port-to-port communication so that multiple devices can communicate with one another simultaneously. Switches back then were "rack it and forget it" like devices that once powered on, pretty much ran configuration free. All of that has changed today as enterprises can have thousands of devices within a single LAN, running multiple types of traffic running at different priority levels.
Not all network traffic is the same. Some traffic is latency tolerant while others are not. For instance, imagine the CEO of the company initiating an important conference call at the same time a bookkeeper starts a print job involving more than a thousand pages. Both of these data streams would compete with each other, creating disruptions within the streaming VoIP conversation. In order to avoid this predicament and ensure the continuous uninterrupted flow of voice streaming, VoIP traffic should be isolated. This is done by configuring VLANs, which are available on most enterprise ready switches.
VLANs are created on all involved switches and then assigned to designated ports through the process of tagging and untagging ports. A port can be either an access port or a trunk port. An access port accommodates a single device such as a computer, printer, VoIP phone or wireless access point. A device becomes a member of a VLAN by simply plugging into its assigned port. Trunk ports are the ports that connect to other network infrastructure devices such as switches and routers. They are the pipelines that carry multiple VLAN traffic and distribute it to other parts of the enterprise. Devices only communicate within their own VLANs.
At the very least, most companies require multiple VLANs in order to accommodate their VoIP systems. Another popular use is to separate wireless traffic from traditional desktop traffic or further separate the management chatter of wireless AP's that communicate with each other or a centralized management appliance. Many SMB enterprises can easily have a half dozen or more VLANs configured for their enterprises.
Each closet contains access switches, which provide connectivity to traditional workstations and printers.
Some closets will require PoE switches to provide power to devices such as wireless access points, digital cameras and VoIP phones.
Each closet requires one switch to serve as its local core switch that connects to the core switch in the MDF through a trunk ports that can accommodate multiple types of media connectors (fiber or Ethernet). The MDF core switch then sends all outgoing traffic to the WAN connection or router. An MDF core switch must be robust and is often times a layer 3 switch that can perform basic routing as well.
With all traffic being routed to it, the datacenter requires a high performance fault tolerant core switch to handle the insatiable workloads. While most switches throughout the enterprise will be fixed port switches, a datacenter core switch is usually of a modular design in order to maximize flexibility and future growth. A modular switch allows for hot swappable expansion modules to accommodate different types of ports, media types and even wireless managers and firewalls. These switches usually have dual power supplies too for redundancy.
The demand for increased bandwidth keeps continues to grow exponentially. It wasn't long ago that 100 MB access ports were more than enough to accommodate the workloads of users. Access ports today are a gigabyte by default with trunk ports built for multigigabit bandwidth. What's more, virtual host switches that accommodate a dozen or more virtual servers require 10 GB today ports today and it is becoming commonplace to find 10 GB core access switches for virtual environments in the modern day enterprise. In fact, the largest datacenters that host cloud infrastructures are even utilizing 40 GB switches today.
Enterprises today require a switch expert to design optimal layer 2 infrastructures. Many businesses turn to managed service providers who have expertise in this field to design, implement and manage switch environments for their clients. If your business is located in the Houston area, turn to NSC where we have the experience and knowledgebase to ensure your switch infrastructure can deliver the performance your enterprise needs, now and the foreseeable future.
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Wednesday 3 September 2014
Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court Rejects Jailed Activist's Appeal
Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court on September 3 rejected a jailed human rights activist's appeal for a review of the case against him.
Kyrgyz Minister To Visit Russia
Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldaev is scheduled to visit Moscow on September 3-5 for talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Well-Known Kyrgyz Uzbek Activist Dies
Ravshan Gapirov, a prominent Uzbek human rights activist in Kyrgyzstan has died at the age of 59.
Red Army Flags Stolen By Assailant At Bishkek Museum
An unknown assailant attacked a female employee of the Mikhail Frunze Museum in Kyrgyzstan's capital and stolen three Soviet-era flags.
Kyrgyz President Promises Better Energy Future
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev has outlined plans to improve gas supplies around the country.
SCO Wraps Up Military Exercises In China
Soldiers from Russia, China, and four Central Asian states are completing the final day of exercises simulating a military response to an outbreak of inter-ethnic tensions in any of the countries.
SCO Military Exercises Due To Enter Final Stage
Army chiefs from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are due to monitor the final stage of ongoing antiterrorist drills in China on August 29.
Kumtor Gold Mine Appears To Be In Bad Shape
Kyrgyzstan's Kumtor gold mine seems to be falling apart, literally. Surrounded by scandal since the early days of the project's history, it appears that, as the Kyrgyz government attempts to acquire more shares of this cash cow on its territory, there is need for some serious upgrading at the site.
Kyrgyzstan's Kumtor Gold Mine
Surrounded by scandal since the early days of the project's history, it appears that, as the Kyrgyz government attempts to acquire more shares of the Kumtor gold mine, there is need for some serious upgrading at the site. RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, Azattyq, has received some photos of the facilities at Kumtor as they were in April 2013 and those pictures show some major housekeeping was in order.
Kyrgyz Block Road In Mine Protest
Hundreds of residents of a village in northern Kyrgyzstan have blocked a highway to the capital, Bishkek, to demand an end to iron-ore mining in the area.
SCO Military Chiefs Agree To Improve Antiterrorism Operations
Military chiefs from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have agreed to improve joint antiterrorism operations.
Gazprom Chief Visits Bishkek To Discuss Kyrgyzstan's Energy Security
The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom, Aleksei Miller, has visited Bishkek to discuss Kyrgyzstan's energy security after neighboring Uzbekistan halted supplies of natural gas.


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REACHING LAST weekend's diplomatic breakthrough between Turkey and Armenia was not easy. It took six weeks of secret talks in Switzerland, seven last-minute phone calls from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the two countries' foreign ministers, and a wild ride in a Zurich police car, lights flashing and siren shrieking, for a Turkish diplomat carrying a revised draft of the accord.
This breakthrough could also be said to have taken 16 years, the length of time the Turkey-Armenia border has been shut, or 94 years, the time that has passed since Ottoman Turkish forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Armenians in what is now eastern Turkey.
In the end, pragmatism prevailed over emotion. Armenia is a poor, landlocked country that desperately needs an outlet to the world. Turkey is a booming regional power, but suffers from its refusal to acknowledge the massacres of 1915. With this accord, each side helps solve the other's problem. The border is to be reopened and diplomatic relations restored, giving Armenia a chance to rejoin the world. Questions about what happened in 1915 - was it genocide? - will be submitted to historians for "impartial scientific examination.''
The most bizarre aspect of this process was the effort by Armenians in France and the United States to derail it. Earlier this month in Paris, President Serge Sarkisian of Armenia was met by shouts of "Traitor!'' and had to be protected by riot police. The potent Armenian-American lobby also rallied against the accord.
If President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran proposed that impartial historians examine the question of whether the Holocaust actually happened, most Jews would presumably accept happily. The failed rebellion by Armenians in the diaspora suggests that some are trapped by the past; their cousins back home, meanwhile, seek a better future.
"There is no alternative to the establishment of relations with Turkey without any precondition,'' Sarkisian said as the new accord was signed. "It is the dictate of the time.''
Both parliaments must ratify the accord. There will be disagreements over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, which Armenia occupies but which the rest of the world considers part of Azerbaijan, Turkey's ally. Nonetheless, both countries seem resolved to thaw this long-frozen conflict. They will probably do whatever necessary to overcome remaining obstacles.
The accord will allow trade between the two countries to resume. It will also make it easier for Armenians to visit magnificent monuments from their past that lie within modern-day Turkey. Beyond that, it has far-reaching geopolitical importance.
For nearly all of its 86 years as a state, Turkey has kept a low profile in the world. Those days are over. Now Turkey is reaching for a highly ambitious regional role as a conciliator and peacemaker.
When Turkish officials land in bitterly divided countries like Lebanon or Afghanistan or Pakistan, every faction is eager to talk to them. No country's diplomats are as welcome in both Tehran and Jerusalem, Moscow and Tblisi, Damascus and Cairo. As a Muslim country intimately familiar with the region around it, Turkey can go places, engage partners, and make deals that the United States cannot.
This new Turkish role holds tantalizing potential. Before Turkey can play it fully, though, it must put its own house in order. That is one reason its leaders were so eager to resolve their country's dispute with Armenia.
Turkey has one remaining international problem to resolve: Cyprus. Then it must solidify its democracy at home. That means lifting restrictions on free speech and fully respecting minority rights not just those of Kurds, whose culture has been brutalized by decades of repression, but also those of Christians, non-mainstream Muslims, and unbelievers.
Under other circumstances, Egypt, Pakistan, or Iran might have emerged to lead the Islamic world. Their societies, however, are weak, fragmented, and decomposing. Indonesia is a more promising candidate, but it has no historic tradition of leadership and is far from the center of Muslim crises. That leaves Turkey. It is trying to seize this role. Making peace with Armenia was an important step. More are likely to come soon.
Stephen Kinzer is the author of "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq.''
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Bhubaneswar: Ollywood actor Arindam Roy tied the knot with Anupa Das, sister of Energy Minister Pranab Prakash Das, at a city hotel here on Sunday night.
Arindam tied the nuptial knot with Anupa in a high-profile wedding ceremony at Hotel Swosti Premium here in presence of VIP friends and guests from film fraternity and political parties.
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PERFORMING OUR FUTURE (POF) is a national arts-based initiative on community and economic development – please see the press release at https://goo.gl/DjHk3Q. POF is a collaboration among Appalshop and its Roadside Theater, Lafayette College's Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP), and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Three initiatives under the banner of POF are currently taking shape for 2016 and 2017: POF FORUM; POF INSTITUTE; and POF RESEARCH.
POF: RESEARCH
Co-Principal Investigators:
Gladstone "Fluney" Hutchinson, founder and director, Lafayette College's Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project, and professor, economics
Scott Peters, faculty co-director, Imagining America, and professor, development sociology, Cornell University
Proposed Design:
Performing Our Future (POF) can be viewed as a theory of change:
The work of interweaving two development paradigms—one from community arts and the other from agency- and asset-centered economics—can help struggling communities break out of bounded imaginations about their identity and potential. In doing so, it can identify and awaken latent assets that can enliven and enrich not only a place's economy but also its civic life and culture.
In Eastern Kentucky, this theory of change is being tested through a relationship between Appalshop and Lafayette College's Economic Empowerment & Global Learning Project (EEGLP). In the process, we think something is happening that can be instructive for other struggling communities, and for scholars, artists, funders, policy makers, and government agency staff. The main goal of our research is to understand and make sense of what is happening, including what is being learned by POF participants. Through our research we seek to contribute to conversations about development in academic fields and literatures, government, and philanthropic institutions. Through both the research process and products, we also seek to contribute in useful ways to the work on the ground in Eastern Kentucky. Our intention is to use this research to inform a larger and longer initiative with partners in other locations.
We propose to take a narrative orientation to our study of what is happening and what is being learned through Appalshop's and EEGLP's relationship and work. As we inquire into what's happening, what we'll be trying to find out is, What's the story? There are, of course, many stories to be told. A narrative orientation requires us to see the world as being richly storied in multiple, diverse, and often conflicting ways. People tell and re-tell stories and narratives of themselves and their organizations and communities. They also re-story themselves and their organizations, communities and world, producing counter-narratives to dominant "master" or meta-narratives. The value of this re-storying process is central to the theory of change POF's creators and participants are testing.
As we use narrative methods to elicit and construct stories of POF participants' experience and work, we'll be looking for backstories; origins and influences; plots and sub-plots; surprises; uncertainties; puzzles; breakthroughs and epiphanies; truths; push back; resistance; disagreement; key moments and turning points; hope and joy; despair and sorrow; comedy and drama; dynamics of power and interests; missing voices and characters; active verbs; front, back, and off stage action. And more. We'll keep things relatively open at first, in order to allow room for people to tell stories the ways they want to tell them. As we construct stories we will read them individually and in small groups, asking what strikes us as being interesting and important, surprising or disturbing, puzzling or confusing, and the like. We'll also generate and pose questions we think the stories might be able to answer, including the ones we generated at our January meeting at Lafayette (e.g., How can our communities develop the ability to tell stories that imagine, and create, a new reality?).
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A method and system for dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of computer systems are disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, a first configuration file is provided at a plurality of computer systems within a cluster that specifies a current configuration of the cluster. A second configuration file is created at each of the plurality of computer systems that specifies a modified configuration of the cluster. The modified configuration is then verified. In response to the verification, the cluster is operated utilizing the modified configuration. In accordance with one embodiment, the dynamic reconfiguration of the cluster can include a reconfiguration of the cluster topology or resources.
The present invention relates in general to a method and system for data processing and in particular to a method and system for configuring a cluster of computer systems. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to method and system for dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of computer systems, which permit the default configuration of the cluster to be modified without limiting the availability of system resources and services owned by the cluster.
Data processing systems are frequently utilized to process data and monitor and manage events in contexts in which reliability and guaranteed access to system resources are of paramount importance. For example, data processing systems are utilized to manage critical databases, automate assembly and production lines, and implement complex control systems. Because of the demands of such mission-critical computing environments, fault tolerant data processing systems were developed. Fault tolerant data processing systems rely on specialized hardware to detect a hardware fault and rapidly incorporate a redundant hardware component into the data processing system in place of the failed hardware component. Although fault tolerant data processing systems can transparently provide reliable and nearly instantaneous recovery from hardware failures, a high premium is often paid in both hardware cost and performance because the redundant components do no processing. Furthermore, conventional fault tolerant data processing systems only provide protection from system hardware failures and do not address software failures, a far more common source of system down time.
In response to the need for a data processing system that provides both high availability of system resources and protection from software failures, cluster architecture was developed. A cluster can be defined as multiple loosely coupled server machines that cooperate to provide client processors with reliable and highly available access to a set of system services or resources. High availability of cluster resources, which can include both hardware and software such as disks, volume groups, file systems, network addresses, and applications, is ensured by defining takeover relationships that specify which of the server machines comprising a cluster assumes control over a group of resources after the server machine that originally owned the group of resources relinquishes control due to reconfiguration of the cluster or failure.
Cluster configuration information specifying the server machines (hereafter referred to as nodes) belonging to a cluster and takeover relationships within the cluster have conventionally been stored within a default configuration file that is accessed by configuration utilities, event scripts, and other programs executed on the various nodes within a cluster. Because of the strict dependency of these node programs on the configuration information stored within the default configuration file, the default configuration file utilized by a conventional cluster must be unmodifiable while the cluster is active. Thus, in order to modify the topology or resources of a conventional cluster, a cluster administrator must take down the cluster, thereby rendering the system services and resources of the cluster inaccessible to clients.
As should thus be apparent, an improved method and system for reconfiguring a cluster is needed that permits a cluster administrator to modify the default configuration of a cluster without rendering the system resources and services owned by the cluster inaccessible to clients.
It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide an improved method and system for data processing.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method and system for configuring a cluster of computer systems.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a method and system for dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of computer systems, which permit the default configuration of the cluster to be modified without limiting the availability of system resources and services owned by the cluster.
The foregoing objects are achieved as is now described. A method and system for dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of computer systems are provided. In accordance with the present invention, a first configuration file is provided at a plurality of computer systems within a cluster that specifies a current configuration of the cluster. A second configuration file is created at each of the plurality of computer systems that specifies a modified configuration of the cluster. The modified configuration is then verified. In response to the verification, the cluster is operated utilizing the modified configuration. In accordance with one embodiment, the dynamic reconfiguration of the cluster can include a reconfiguration of the cluster topology or resources.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the behavior of a peer node in response to receipt of a cluster reconfiguration event.
With reference now to the figures and in particular with reference to FIG. 1, there is illustrated a cluster 10, which may be dynamically reconfigured in accordance with the present invention. As illustrated, cluster 10 is a multi-processor data processing system including one or more clients 12, which each comprise a personal computer or workstation, for example. Each of clients 12 runs a "front end" or client application that issues service requests to server applications running on nodes 20. A client 12 communicates with other clients 12 and with nodes 20 via one of public Local Area Networks (LANs) 14 and 16, which can comprise Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI or other networks. Communication across public LANs 14 and 16 is regulated by a communication protocol such as TCP/IP.
In order to ensure that cluster resources are highly available to clients 12, cluster 10 includes multiple nodes 20, which preferably comprise uniprocessor or multi-processor data processing systems, such as the RISC System/6000 available from IBM Corporation. In contrast to fault tolerant systems, which include idle redundant hardware, each node 20 within cluster 10 runs a server or "backend" application, which performs tasks in response to service requests issued by clients 12. As illustrated, in order to eliminate as many single points of failure as possible, each of clients 20 has at least two network adapters for each connected network: a service network adapter 22 and a standby network adapter 24. Service network adapter 22, which provides the primary connection between a node 20 and one of public LANs 14 and 16, is assigned an IP address that is published to application programs running on clients 12. If a service network adapter 22 of one of nodes 20 fails, High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) software running on the node 20 substitutes the IP address assigned to standby network adapter 24 for the IP address assigned to the failed service network adapter 22 in order to maintain high availability of cluster resources and services. Similarly, if a local node 20 is designated to service requests addressed to a peer node 20 should the peer node 20 fail, standby network adapter 24 of local node 20 is assigned the IP address of the service network adapter 22 of peer node 20 upon failure. In addition to the communication path provided by public LANs 14 and 16, nodes 20 can communicate across private LAN 26, which provides peer-to-peer communication between nodes 20, but does not permit access by clients 12. Private LAN 26 can be implemented utilizing an Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, or other network. Alternatively, a serial communication channel such as a SCSI-2 differential bus or RS-232 serial line can be utilized.
As depicted, cluster 10 further includes shared external disks 32, which are accessible to each node 20 via redundant disk busses 28 and 30. Shared disks 32 store mission-critical data, which is typically mirrored to provide data redundancy. Shared disks 32, volume groups, file systems, and applications stored within shared disks 32, and IP addresses assigned to network adapters 22 and 24 together form a set of cluster resources essential to processing, which the architecture of cluster 10 makes highly available to clients 12. The operation and components of cluster multi-processing systems such as cluster 10 are described in greater detail in High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing 4.1 for AIX: Concepts and Facilities, which is available from IBM Corporation as Publication No. SC23-2767-01 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Referring now to FIGS. 2A and 2B, software and data models of each node 20 within cluster 10 are depicted. The illustrated software and data are considered private, in that each node 20 individually stores its respective software and data internally rather than in shared disks 32. With reference first to FIG. 2A, the software model of each node 20 has an AIX (Advanced Interactive executive) layer 44 at the lowest level, which provides operating system services such as memory allocation and thread scheduling. As illustrated, AIX layer 44 includes a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) subsystem 40, which manages shared disks 32 at the logical level. In addition, a TCP/IP subsystem 42 is provided that manages communication between local node 20 and clients 12 and peer nodes 20 across public LANs 14 and 16 and private LAN 26.
In accordance with the present invention, the software model of each node 20 also includes a High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) layer 50, which interacts with AIX layer 44 to provide a highly available computing environment. HACMP layer 50 includes cluster manager 52, which has the primary responsibilities of monitoring the hardware and software subsystems of cluster 10, tracking the state of nodes 20, and responding appropriately to maintain the availability of cluster resources in response to a change in the state of cluster 10. Cluster manager 52 monitors the status of neighboring nodes 20 by transmitting "heartbeat" messages to which neighboring nodes 20 respond with similar messages. In response to a change in the state of cluster 10, for example, a failure of one of nodes 20, cluster manager 52 runs appropriate scripts to implement the takeover relationships specified within default configuration file 70 (illustrated in FIG. 2B). As described in greater detail below, cluster manager 52 also responds to Dynamic Automatic Reconfiguration Events (DAREs), which are initiated by a cluster administrator in order to dynamically reconfigure the topology or resources of cluster 10.
The software model illustrated in FIG. 2A further includes an application layer 54, which provides services to client applications running on clients 12 and itself utilizes services provided by AIX layer 44 and HACMP layer 50. Application software within application layer 54 is among the cluster resources to which HACMP 50 provides highly available access.
Referring now to FIG. 2B, the data model of each active node 20 includes an event queue 60, a default configuration file 70, and an active configuration file 72. Event queue 60 is a first in/first out (FIFO) queue that temporarily stores events to be processed by HACMP layer 50. Events within event queue 60 can include events generated internally by cluster manager 52 as well as events received by cluster manager 52 from clients 12 and peer nodes 20. Default configuration file 70 contains cluster and AIX configuration information utilized by HACMP configuration utilities, cluster daemons such as cluster manager 52, and the event scripts executed by cluster manager 52. When cluster daemons are started on a node 20, the contents of default configuration file 70 are copied to active configuration file 72 for access by all cluster daemons, event scripts, and HACMP configuration utilities. As described in greater detail below with reference to FIGS. 3A-3C, cluster manager 52 creates a temporary configuration file 74 in response to receipt of a DARE in order to prevent the corruption of configuration files 70 and 72 during the implementation of the specified configuration modifications.
With reference now to FIGS. 3A-3C, there is illustrated a logical flowchart of an illustrative embodiment of a method for dynamically reconfiguring a cluster in accordance with the present invention. The depicted method is performed within a local node 20 of cluster 10 by cluster manager 52 and other cluster daemons within HACMP layer 50. As illustrated, the process begins at block 80 upon the activation of local node 20 and thereafter proceeds to block 82, which illustrates starting cluster manager 52 and other daemons on local node 20. The process then proceeds to block 84, which depicts HACMP layer 50 copying default configuration file 70 to active configuration file 72 in response to the activation of the cluster daemons at block 82. As noted above, active configuration file 72 can then be accessed by all cluster daemons, event scripts, and HACMP configuration utilities running on local node 20. The process proceeds from block 84 to block 86, which illustrates the application of user-specified modifications of the cluster configuration to local default configuration file 70. The contents of local default configuration file 70 is then transmitted to all peer nodes 20, as indicated at block 88. Despite the changes made to local default configuration file 70 at block 86, no change is reflected in the operation of cluster 10 because the software running of local node 20 references active configuration file 72 rather than default configuration file 70. The process then proceeds to block 90, which illustrates cluster manager 52 determining whether or not a DARE has been received at local node 20. In the depicted configuration of cluster 10, a DARE can be conveniently initiated by a cluster administrator through entry of inputs via a user interface provided within one of clients 12 that indicate that the modifications to default configuration file 70 are to be implemented throughout cluster 10.
In response to a determination at block 90 that a DARE has not been received, the process iterates at block 90 until such time as a DARE is received. In response to receipt of a DARE at local node 20, the process proceeds from block 90 to block 92, which illustrates HACMP layer 50 determining whether or not a DARE is currently active within cluster 10. If so, the DARE received at block 90 is aborted, as illustrated at block 94. The serialization of DAREs in this manner prevents a cluster-wide configuration corruption, which could otherwise result from the simultaneous application of conflicting cluster configurations. In response to a determination at block 92 that another DARE is not currently pending, the process proceeds to blocks 96, which depicts HACMP layer 50 of local node 20 validating the configuration information within the DARE. Next, the process proceeds to block 98, which illustrates a determination of whether or not the DARE specifies a reconfiguration of the topology of cluster 10, for example, by adding or deleting a node, network, or adapter. If so, the process passes through page connector A to block 120 of FIG. 3B. The determination illustrated at block 98 can be made, for example, by calculating and comparing separate checksums of the cluster topology information specified in the DARE and that formerly stored within default configuration file 70. In accordance with this embodiment, the checksum is a variable-length bit stream, which is calculated by cluster manager 52 in a specified manner that yields diverse checksums for different cluster configurations.
Referring now to block 120 of FIG. 3B, following a determination at block 96 that the DARE specifies a reconfiguration of the topology of cluster 10, cluster manager 52 requests and verifies that cluster managers 52 on peer nodes 20 all process the DARE request in a number of synchronized sequential steps. Thus, as depicted at block 120, cluster manager 52 on local node 20 first transmits a DARE to peer cluster managers 52.
Referring now to FIG. 4, there is depicted a flowchart illustrating the method in which a peer node 20 within cluster 10 responds to request to the DARE transmitted by local node 20 at block 120 of FIG. 3B. As illustrated, the process begins at block 200 in response to receipt of an event and thereafter proceeds to block 202, which illustrates a determination by peer cluster manager 52 whether or not a DARE has been received. If not, the process passes to block 208, which illustrates peer node 20 processing the event normally. Thereafter, the process terminates at block 210. However, in response to a determination at block 202 that a DARE has been received at peer node 20, the process proceeds to block 204, which illustrates peer cluster manager 52 suspending other cluster operations such as heartbeat communication. Next, as shown at block 206, peer cluster manager 52 copies the contents of local default configuration file 70, which was previously sent to peer node 20, to peer temporary configuration file 74. The process then terminates at block 210.
Referring again to block 120 of FIG. 3B, following the transmission of the DARE, local cluster manager 52 determines whether or not all peer nodes 20 have suspended cluster operations and copied local default configuration file 70 to peer temporary configuration file 74. If not, the process passes to block 156, which illustrates local cluster manager 52 aborting the requested dynamic reconfiguration of cluster 10. Returning to block 122, in response to a determination that cluster operations have been suspended by all peer nodes 20 within cluster 10, the process proceeds to block 124, which depicts local cluster manager 52 transmitting a message to peer nodes 20 that requests peer cluster managers 52 to verify that all temporary configuration files 74 are identical. As illustrated at block 126, in response to a determination that the reply messages from peer nodes 20 indicate that all temporary configuration files are identical, the process proceeds to block 128. However, if the replies to local cluster manager 52 indicate that not all temporary configuration files 74 are identical, the reconfiguration process is aborted, as depicted at block 156.
Returning to block 128, local cluster manager 52 then transmits a message requesting that peer cluster managers 52 set the state of components common to both the new and old cluster topologies to the state specified in the old configuration. For example, the state of components in the old configuration are set to active and the state of newly added components is set to "offline" or inactive. The process then proceeds to block 130, which illustrates a determination whether the request made at block 128 has been completed by all peer nodes 20. If not, the process proceeds to block 156 in the manner which has been described. However, in response to a determination that the state of the components common to the new and old configurations have been set as requested, the process proceeds to block 140, which illustrates local cluster manager 52 transmitting a message requesting that peer cluster managers 52 set the state of components which are members of only the new or old topology to offline. Following a successful verification at block 142 that the request made at block 140 was fulfilled by all peer nodes 120, the process proceeds to block 144.
Block 144 depicts cluster manager 52 initiating heartbeat communication with newly added components of cluster 10. The process proceeds from block 144 to block 146, which illustrates a determination of whether or not the heartbeat messages issued at block 144 were answered by the newly added components of cluster 10. If not, the reconfiguration of cluster 10 is aborted at block 156 in the manner which has been described. However, if local cluster manager 52 receives a return heartbeat message from each of the newly added components, the process passes from block 146 to block 148, which illustrates cluster manager 52 transmitting a message requesting that peer cluster managers 52 copy their respective temporary configuration file 74 to active configuration file 72. The process then proceeds to block 150, which depicts a determination of whether or not the overwriting of active configuration file 72 has been completed by all peer nodes 20 within cluster 10. If not, the reconfiguration process is aborted at block 156. However, if the modification of active configuration file 72 has been accomplished by all peer nodes 20, the process passes to block 152, which illustrates local node 20 transmitting a message to peer nodes 20 requesting that peer nodes 20 resume cluster operations such as heartbeat communication and failure recovery. Following the execution of the step illustrative at block 152, nodes 20 are again available to process DAREs. Thereafter, the process terminates at block 154.
Returning to block 98 of FIG. 3A, in response to a determination that the DARE does not specify a reconfiguration of the topology of cluster 10, the process passes to block 99, which depicts a determination of whether of not the DARE specifies a reconfiguration of cluster resources. If not, the process terminates at block 100. However, if a determination is made at block 99 that the DARE specifies a reconfiguration of cluster resources, the process proceeds through page connector B to block 170 of FIG. 3C. Block 170 illustrates local cluster manager 52 transmitting a DARE to peer nodes 20. As illustrated at block 172, local cluster manager 52 then determines from reply messages whether or not peer nodes 20 have suspended other cluster operations and copied local default configuration file 70 to peer temporary configuration file 74. If not, the process passes to block 194, which illustrates local cluster manager 52 aborting the requested dynamic reconfiguration of the resources of cluster 10. However, in response to a determination that all peer nodes 20 have responded to the DARE as illustrated in FIG. 4, the process proceeds to block 174, which depicts local cluster manager 52 transmitting a message to peer nodes 20 requesting verification that the temporary configuration files 74 of all peer nodes 20 are identical. As illustrated at block 176, in response to a determination that the return messages from peer nodes 20 indicate that all temporary configuration files are identical, the process proceeds to block 178.
Block 178 illustrates local cluster manager 52 transmitting a message requesting that peer cluster managers 52 release any cluster resources owned by the peer node 20 under the old configuration, but not under the new configuration. In accordance with the request depicted at block 178, peer nodes 20 discontinue the provision of system services that require that the use of network adapters, application programs, and other cluster resources no longer owned by that peer node 20. A determination is then made by local cluster manager 52 whether or not all peer nodes 20 affected by the request issued at block 178 have complied with the request. If not, the process passes to block 194, which illustrates cluster manager 52 aborting the resource reconfiguration of cluster 10. If, on the other hand, all peer nodes 20 to which the request issued at block 178 is applicable have released the indicated resources, the process proceeds from block 180 to block 182. Block 182 depicts cluster manager 52 transmitting a message requesting that each peer node 20 acquire any cluster resources owned by the peer nodes 20 only under the new configuration. As before, if the request depicted at block 182 is not completed by all applicable peer nodes 20, the process proceeds from block 184 to block 194 where the resource reconfiguration is aborted. However, following a verification at block 184 that the request depicted at block 182 has been completed by all peer nodes 20, the process proceeds to block 186, which illustrates local cluster manager 52 transmitting a message requesting that peer cluster managers 52 copy their respective temporary configuration file 74 to active configuration file 72. Next, the process proceeds from block 186 to block 188, which illustrates a determination by local cluster manager 52 whether or not all peer nodes 20 have completed the request depicted at block 186. If not, the reconfiguration process is aborted at block 194. However, if all peer nodes 20 have overwritten their respective active configuration file 72 with the new cluster configuration, the process passes to block 190, which illustrates local cluster manager 52 transmitting a message to peer nodes 20 requesting that peer cluster managers 52 resume other cluster operations. The process then terminates at block 192.
As has been described, the present invention provides a method and system for dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of computer systems which permit uninterrupted provision of system service to clients within the cluster. In accordance with the present invention, updates to the configuration files of peer nodes within the cluster are performed in a synchronized manner in order to insure that a consistent cluster configuration is maintained across all nodes within the cluster.
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, although the present invention has been described with reference to an illustrative embodiment in which software implementing the present invention is stored within and executed on a multi-processing cluster, such software can alternatively be embodied as a computer program product residing within recordable media such as magnetic and optical disks or transmission media such as digital and analog communications links.
in response to said verification, operating said cluster utilizing said modified configuration.
2. The method of dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of claim 1, wherein said steps of creating, verifying, and operating are synchronized between said plurality of computer systems.
in response to a failure of any of said plurality of computer systems to complete said creating and verifying steps, aborting said dynamic reconfiguration of said cluster.
5. The method of dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of claim 4, wherein said step of verifying said modified configuration comprises verifying ownership by said plurality of computer systems of selected resources accessible under said modified configuration.
6. The method of dynamically reconfiguring a cluster of claim 4, wherein said steps of creating, verifying, and operating are synchronized between said plurality of computer systems.
a cluster manager stored within said memory of at least one of said plurality of computer systems and executable by at least one of said plurality of computer systems, wherein said cluster manager creates a second configuration file at each of said plurality of computer systems, said second configuration file specifying a modified configuration of said cluster, and wherein said cluster manager verifies said modified configuration of said cluster, and in response to said verification, operates said cluster utilizing said modified configuration.
9. The cluster a data processing system of claim 8 wherein said second configuration file created at each of said plurality of computer systems by said cluster manager specifies a modified cluster topology.
10. The cluster data processing system of claim 9, wherein said cluster manager verifies said modified configuration by establishing communication with each computer system that is within said modified configuration and not within said current configuration.
11. The cluster data processing system of claim 8, wherein said second configuration file created at each of said plurality of computer systems by said cluster manager specifes a diverse set of cluster resources than said first configuration file.
12. The cluster data processing system of claim 11, wherein said cluster manager verifies said configuration by verifying ownership by said plurity of computer systems of selected resources accessable under said modified configuration.
13. The cluster data processing system of claim 8, wherein said cluster manager synchronizes creation of said second configuration file, verification of said modified configuration, and operation of said cluster utilizing said modified configuration between said plurity of computer systems.
14. The cluster data processing system of claim 8, wherein said cluster manager aborts said dynamic reconfiguration of said cluster in response to a failure of any of said plurity of computer systems to successfully complete creation of said second configuration file and verification of said modified configuration.
an information bearing media bearing said cluster manager.
16. The program product of claim 15, wherein said cluster manager verifies said modified configuration by establishing communication with each computer system that is within said modified configuration and not within said current configuration.
17. The program product of claim 15, wherein said cluster manager synchronizes creation of said second configuration file, verification of said modified configuration, and operation of said cluster utilizing said modified configuration between said plurality of computer systems.
18. The program product of claim 15, wherein said cluster manager aborts dynamic reconfiguration of said cluster in response to a failure of any of said plurality of computer systems to successfully complete creation of said second configuration file and verification of said modified configuration.
20. The program product of claim 19, wherein said cluster manager verifies said modified configuration by verifying ownership by said plurality of computer systems of selected resources accessible under said modified configuration.
21. The program product of claim 19, wherein said cluster manager synchronizes creation of said second configuration file, verification of said modified configuration, and operation of said cluster utilizing said modified configuration between said plurality of computer systems.
22. The program product of claim 19, wherein said cluster manager aborts dynamic reconfiguration of said cluster in response to a failure of any of said plurality of computer systems to successfully complete creation of said second configuration file and verification of said modified configuration.


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The Young IPA Podcast – Episode 15 with Matthew Lesh & Simon Breheny
James Bolt and Peter Gregory Started 16 June 2017
This week James and Pete recap the three big news stories of the week in the tabling of the Finkel review (0:59), the fallout of the UK general election (2:19) and the legal troubles for three...
Values Matter In Politics
Matthew Lesh 15 June 2017 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,
One statistic is essential to understanding the shock British election result: the turnout by people aged 18 to 24. Since 1992 only around four-in-10 young people have shown up to vote. In 2017...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
We Are The Boiling Frog
Brett Hogan 8 June 2017 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,
The growing influence of the state throughout the western world, buttressed by technological development and a crisis of confidence in the capitalist system is shaping up as a major threat to...
Four Year Terms Are A Bad Idea
Andrew Bushnell and Daniel Wild 24 February 2017 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,
The election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit, and the return of One Nation have all threatened the centre-right status quo, while on the left, throwback leaders like Bernie Sanders and Jeremy...
Originally appeared in The Spectator
Minor Party Voters Fed Up With Red Tape
Daniel Wild 16 February 2017 Media releases, Publications,
Fifty-two per cent of minor party voters believe Australia is over-regulated, according to an Essential Research poll released on 14 February 2017. "This is clear evidence that minor party...
Donald Trump Vote Was All About Voters Having A Different Choice
John Roskam 18 November 2016 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,
Last Wednesday afternoon, just as it was becoming clear Donald Trump would win the US presidential election Aaron Patrick, senior writer at this paper reported on an insight he had gained from an...
Rowan Callick On Chinese Democracy
Morgan Begg 17 November 2016 Constitution and law, Ipa today,
A fascinating piece from Rowan Callick in The Australian today on the repressive nature of Chinese democracy, where those insufficiently loyal to the ruling Communist party are not allowed to...
Donald Trump Will Lead The US In The Right Direction. We Should Take Note
Georgina Downer 10 November 2016 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,
Donald Trump's historic victory represents a huge opportunity for middle America. It is a rejection of liberal internationalism, political correctness and the progressive politics of urban...
Malcolm Turnbull Must Ignore The Luvvies – He Leads A Centre-Right Party
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Tony Abbott is right. Australians are sick of the revolving door of prime ministers. As Abbott said on Wednesday, there's not going to be a change in the Liberal leadership "any time...
How To Defuse The Authoritarian Populist Timebomb
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It is no foregone conclusion that simply giving government more power and money will fix income inequality. Adam Smith once wryly said "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation", and...
Malcolm Turnbull Is Set On Making Super Another ETS Moment For Himself
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In 2009 as the leader of the opposition Malcolm Turnbull supported the introduction of an emissions trading scheme. He maintained his support for an ETS in the face of overwhelming opposition from...
Populism Is Not A Dirty Word
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The political news right now is Malcolm Turnbull's tenuous hold on government. But tight elections aren't unusual. The real significance of the 2016 election is how it reveals the...
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Yesterday, I surprised Alex by coming home from the store with a tiny Fraser fir tree, measuring in at about four feet tall. We've never had a Christmas tree before -- it seems pretty frivolous, considering we're never at home for Christmas anyway -- but I just couldn't resist. I got some LED lights -- they don't get hot! -- and found the handful of ornaments we've been given over the years. The stand I bought turned out to be a piece of junk, but with the creative use of rocks from the front yard, I think we almost got the tree standing up straight. Success!
This has been a festive weekend for more than one reason, actually. On Friday, I gave a PL-wonks talk that doubled as my final presentation for Ryan's seminar course. If I'd just done the presentation in class like I was originally supposed to do, I'd have had to squeeze it into a fifteen-minute slot, which wasn't enough for everything I wanted to say. But PL-wonks talks can be much longer, and as it turned out, the person who'd been scheduled to talk at PL-wonks was willing (and even happy) to give up his slot for me. This is where the grunt work of organizing PL-wonks pays off: I get to pull last-minute stunts like this if I want to. The talk went well, and I realized afterward that not only was it my last class work of the semester, but it was the last work that I'll do for a grade, ever. Hooray! (It's about damn time.) Here are the slides from my talk, which is about dependence analysis and draws heavily from the Allen and Kennedy compilers book.
I also found out on Friday that I received the POPL travel grant that I applied for, which will cover the cost of attending both the workshop offering the grant and POPL itself. The workshop itself would be reason enough to go; there's a fantastic lineup of speakers1, at least five other people from IU are going as well, and plans for an epic road trip are beginning to take shape. But I'm even more excited for the POPL program. In addition to all three of the "Semantics" session talks, I'm excited for the Frenetic talk, the verified LLVM work, the PLT Redex talk, and a bunch of others. This is the first time that I've had funding to go to a major conference (instead of having to pay for it out of pocket, as I did for ICFP last year). Another first for me this year is that a paper that I was one of the reviewers for is appearing at a POPL-affiliated workshop, so I'm hoping to go see that talk, too, in between everything else that's going on.
As if all that weren't enough, I'm also looking forward to the new Off the Beaten Track workshop that's affiliated with POPL and happening the day after the main conference ends. The goal of OBT is to identify and discuss problems that are underrepresented in PL research. The preliminary program just came out, and lots of folks from IU are in it: there's "Embracing the Laws of Physics" (Roshan James and Amr Sabry)2; "Language Design: A Cognitive Science Approach" (Michael Hansen, Andrew Lumsdaine and Robert Goldstone); "Revisiting APL in the Modern Era" (Aaron Hsu and Billy Bowman); and, in the first talk slot, "Rule-Based Interactive Fiction" (Chris chrisamaphone Martens from CMU and Zach Sparks, Claire Alvis, and Will Byrd from IU)! I'm so happy to see this -- I really tried to push people from our group to submit papers to OBT and to apply for the POPL grant, and in both cases, I'm delighted that so many of us apparently did. Quite often, I think, we are underrepresented in PL research. So it's a great thing that a whole bunch of us are going to go to POPL and, well, represent.
It looks like the talks at the workshop are going to be a mix of PL topics ("Types", "Logic", "Verification", and such) and how-to-succeed-in-grad-school topics ("Writing Papers", "Time Management", and so on). What's kind of amusing is that I saw "Time Management" (presented by Amal and Steve Zdancewic) on the schedule next to "Verification" and "Program Analysis" and for a moment, didn't realize that it wasn't one of the technical topics -- I figured that it would be about, you know, how to reason about time as a linear computational resource or something. That's a talk I wouldn't mind seeing, either! Oh, well. Speaking of time management, I sort of wonder how much can possibly be said to PL grad students about a topic as broad as, say, "Types" in only half an hour, but it will be interesting to find out.
I mentioned to Amr that it was perhaps unfair to say that this material is "off the beaten track", considering that his and Roshan's paper on this stuff is also appearing in POPL proper. Amr said that it was a good point, but that since his modest goal is for this approach to take over the world, it still qualified as off the beaten track.
Awww, J Strother Moore? Now you're going to make me go.
The Herman B Wells Association for the Advancement of Single-Letter Names thanks you for not following "J" with a period!
You should go. Ooh, I forgot to mention that Andreas is speaking about Mozilla Research stuff at POPL TutorialFest, too! I'm going to have to duck out of OBT to see his talk.
And, hey, when you're done you just have to move it about two feet and light a match!
Embarrassingly, we've never actually used our fireplace! We're both sort of afraid to.
Ah, your instincts are good! Geared toward survival!


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Chord Overstreet
Author Binay Pradhan Published on March 11, 2020 2 min read
1 Quick Facts
2 Chord Overstreet Net Worth: $1 Million
3 Dating History: Who is Chord Overstreet Girlfriend?
4 Short Wiki like-Bio
Last Modified On: 11th March, 2020, 12:37 AM
As Glee hit the TV screens in 2010, many casts from the show earned popularity, including Chord Street. Besides, having a TV career, he also went on to journey through a musical career releasing songs like Homeland, Carried Away, and his biggest hit, Hold On, which he wrote after the death of his close friend.
Birth Name Chord Paul Overstreet
Birth Date February 17, 1989
Birthplace Nashville, Tennessee
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Height 6 feet
Parents Father: Paul Overstreet
Mother: Julie Miller
Siblings Nash Overstreet, Harmony Overstreet, Skye Overstreet, Summer Overstreet, Charity Overstreet
Girlfriend N/A
Married Not Yet
Chord Overstreet Net Worth: $1 Million
Chord started his acting career from the web series Private where he played the role of Josh Hollis. Later, he appeared in the thriller film The Hole in 2009 and was cast in an episode of TV series iCarly. However, he earned prominence once he earned a role as Sam Evans in the popular series, Glee. His character was a transfer student and athlete on the FOX comedy-drama TV series.
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Later, he made an appearance in other TV series like The Middle, Regular Show, and Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. Likewise, his film credits include A Warrior's Heart, 4th Man Out, and The Swings Of Things. Moreover, he also has a musical career releasing singles like Homeland, Hold On, Wasted Time, Carried Away, and My Ex, among others. The actor is also a winner of the 2013 Teen Choice Awards. As of 2020, Chord Overstreet has a net worth of $1 Million
Dating History: Who is Chord Overstreet Girlfriend?
Chord Overstreet has always been a hot topic when it comes to celebrity dating life. As he has dated some A-list celebrities over the years, his fans are often curious to know his relationship status. However, he seems to be single for now and is not dating anyone publicly. Likewise, there was also no sign of him having a girlfriend on his Instagram.
However, he has had a fair share of relationships in the past. His first popular girlfriend was Dallas Lovato, Demi Lovato's sister, whom he dated in 2010. Then he dated Josie Loren in 2011 before making Emma Roberts his girlfriend from 2011-2012. In 2014, he was seen in a relationship with Halston Sage and Brooke Butler in 2015.
Nonetheless, his popular relationship came in 2018 when he started dating the Harry Potter star, Emma Watson, in 2018. His relationship with Emma made headlines, as many were curious to know who was Emma's new boyfriend. Regardless, he was seen wrapping arms around model Amanda Pizziconi in 2019, a year after his split with Emma. However, Chord and the model have not appeared together for a long time now.
Short Wiki like-Bio
Chord Paul Overstreet was born in 1989 in Nashville, Tennessee. He celebrates his birthday on February 17, which makes his age 31. His mother Julie, a hairdresser, and father Paul Overstreet, a country music singer-songwriter, raised him. Likewise, he has an older brother Nash Overstreet who plays guitar in the band Hot Chelle Rae. Moreover, he also has an older sister, Summer, and three younger sisters, Harmony, Skye, and Charity.
Chord was pursued by his parents to pursue music, and he had modeled for an advertisement for Hollister, Famous Footwear, and Gap during his teenage years. He holds an American nationality and comes from White ethnicity. The handsome songwriter has a height of 6 feet.
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