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[Lorin Hochstein <lorin@xxxxxxx>]

At the Diablo summit, there were several people who expressed interest in using OpenStack to do bare-metal provisioning of nodes as an alternative to virtualization. We're using this approach at ISI to support Tilera hardware. Our implementation is Tilera-specific, but we'd like to build a more general solution so people could use it for other backends, and to support interfacing with existing provisioning solutions such as xCat, Perceus, and Heckle.

I've set up a group on Launchpad with a mailing list for those who are interested in this type of functionality to discuss backends.

Web page: https://launchpad.net/~nova-bare-metal
Mailing list: nova-bare-metal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Take care,

Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein, Computer Scientist
USC Information Sciences Institute
703.812.3710
http://www.east.isi.edu/~lorin