Changes

== Roadmap ==

Documentation is extremely important in this project. Because many people have administrative access to the cluster machines soft copy documentation is necessary. Anyone who needs to know something about the cluster '''should''' be able to find it within the documentation.

This is something that '''everyone''' needs to keep in mind when working on the cluster, not just the administrators.

This is a high priority item that we do not have direct control over. The people in charge are working to make this happen and hopefully it will happen soon.

* We need to find out if ACS needs to be informed when new port forwards are done.

As the cluster usage becomes higher and higher it is important to have easy and quick ways to bring up new machines. Generic Ubuntu images have been made already but the quality of them is currently unknown. Some testing should be done to make sure they are stable and complete. I would like to have this done before the start of the next Winter 2007 semester as there will probably be an influx of requests for VMs by new DPS909 students.

When the images are created the steps for creating a VM and the steps for bringing up a new VM should be documented. This is listed in the table in the [[#Details|project details]] section.

The high latency problem on the cluster seems to be solved but we need to keep an eye on it. If this issues crop up again they should be recognized and reported to ACS very quickly.

VNC normally runs on a single port running a single X session. This makes it very tough to have multiple users connected at the same time -- or even multiple users using different accounts. This is an issue that we want solved. When someone connects on VNC it should be the same as sitting down at the desktop. GDM should allow a login to that users' desktop. When a second user connects they should see the same thing. This may have to be done through some XDMCP but it '''must''' but compatible with Windows and Linux VNC clients.