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Open source to do list
Here's a list of the things we know we need doing. If you'd like
to help out, just drop us a line on mailto:feedback@jtrix.org.
- Storix - file
system service. Distributed, has transactions and redundancy.
Our first cut was a good proof of concept; needs to be implemented
in Beatrix.
- DNS service.
Currently does not properly use Beatrix's features of redundant
information storage. Also misses some DNS features such as reverse
lookup.
- Database (such
as Mckoi) to be moved onto Storix. Then it can be be moved into
Jtrix, just like we've done with Tomcat.
- Search engine.
The Web site uses Lucene's all-Java search engine. Putting this
onto Storix and into Jtrix will produce a great Jtrix service.
- Accounting in nodes.
Currently basic information is collected by DLLs in Linux. This
needs to be tidied and checked, and also ported to Win2k.
- Good management
tools. For managing all kinds of services, accounts, contracts,
etc.
- Contract management
layer. To enable easier negotiation for(?) and getting of
contracts.
- Indexing service.
In progress. To automatically discover answers to questions
along the lines of "I want a service which matches the following
criteria..."
- Hosting service
to scale up. Some scaling issues identified. All quite solvable,
but needs work. Some work on this in progress
- Beatrix to scale
better. This goes with the hosting service needing to scale
better. We are yet to see how far Beatrix really scales, and
will need to address these issues.
- Network metrics.
Measuring network usage.
- Multiservice optimisation.
The scenario is that an HTTP service may want to move to a hosting
service nearer its users. It will use the indexing service to
choose a hosting service with the right geographic features.
But it will also use, say, a Webtrix servlet service which has
its own requirements. How can we amalgamate all these requirements
and find the optimal criteria for the hosting service?
- One node wonder.
This is a stripped-down version of jnode designed specifically
to run on its own on a PC, with no clustering facilities. As
such it is very lightweight.
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Virtual hosting service
which aggregates many hosting services to appear as if it
was a single hosting service. It is fed with warrants for
many hosting services which it wraps.
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