This is the first of what I hope will be informative and helpful progress reports for the Evergreen software development project. In this report I plan on giving a broad, project-wide overview of events, decisions, issues, and milestones that have occurred recently within the project. I also hope this report elicits responses and comments from you, the reader. My goal is to compile this sort of report at least monthly. The official target audience for this report is the PINES Executive Committee, but, of course, I welcome anyone to read and comment. I should also mention that since this is my first report, and I have to cover multiple months, this will most likely be one of my larger reports.
Hardware
We’ve had some questions about what kind of hardware we’re developing the software on, so I’ve decided to write an entry about it. As we describe in the FAQ, we’ve decided on Linux on x86 as the target platform, and we’ve built a development cluster accordingly. We have 5 Linux servers of varying configuration: 1 database server, 2 application servers, and 2 load balancer/firewall servers: