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UK Records was the most successful seller of singles ever - in the 1970's it had several hits in the United Kingdom Top 5 at the same time, with a staff of 4.
Those hits were both home made and licensed from abroad. Some had been released and flopped on major labels; released again on the famous blue or silver UK logo, they shot into the charts.
Combined; the tracks on this compilation sold hundreds of millions around the world. Forget "artistes" or "albums" - these are, quite simply, hits. Catchy, instant, varied, exciting, huge and, in some cases, very rare; never available on collections before.
The ultimate snapshot of the Sixties and Seventies but not the obvious
(and sometimes boring - because you've heard them so often) classics.
If you put on this collection - over four hours - we guarantee someone will say
"Oh my God, I'd forgotten all about that one".
Disc One.
1) Fattie Bum Bum - Carl Malcolm - UK108 - No8 1975
Fabulous reggae track by Carl Malcolm which turned into a massive UK hit in 1975 selling millions of copies around the world.
2) Wall Street Shuffle - 10cc - UK69 - No10 1974
One of the greatest 10cc tracks from a band who defined the 1970s.
3) Keep On Dancing - The Bay City Rollers - No9 1971
The original smash hit from 1971 which started the Bay City Rollers careers and features thirteen vocals by JK in the background - and original singer Nobby Clark on lead vocal.
4) Time Warp - Original London Cast 1972 - UK67
From the original soundtrack recorded only three days into the very first run of the smash hit show at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court in Sloane Square.
5) Little Bit O'Soul - The Music Explosion - UK/USA9 - No2 USA 1967
John Carter wrote this and had a huge US hit with it; it flopped in the UK, even when we rereleased it in 1975, but it's a great track.
6) Everyone's Gone To The Moon - Jonathan King - Decca/UK47 - No4 1965
A superb arrangement and production by the late, great Ken Jones.
7) Beach Baby - The First Class - UK66 - No13UK/No4US 1974
Another fantastic John Carter song and production which became a massive global hit in 1975.
8) Not Too Little…Not Too Much - Chris Sandford - Decca/No17 1963
One of the very first soap opera hits, Chris played Walter Potts, managed by Dennis Tanner, in Coronation Street. Another Ken Jones production.
9) Star Trek - Charles Randolph Grean Sounde - UK/USA15 No8 US 1975
Charles was a brilliant writer and producer and was responsible for numerous great hits such as the Dark Shadows theme.
10) Johnny Reggae - The Piglets - UK134 - No3 1971
White reggae! Simply a very catchy novelty track which caught the nation's fancy and sold millions in 1972.
11) In The Mood - Sound 9418 - UK121 - No46 1976
A disco version, mixing all different styles of music, of the Glenn Miller classic, originally a hit in 1940.
12) The Silent Sun - Peter Gabriel and Genesis - Decca/UK 1969
a superb track recorded by Peter Gabriel and Genesis in 1969 whilst they were still teenage schoolboys.
13) Sugar Sugar - Sakkarin - UK - No12 1971
The Archies had a No1 with this in 1969 - the Sakkarin version is a spoof rock version with a great high guitar solo sound.
14) Rock and Roll I Gave You... - Kevin Johnson UK84 No23 1974 Australia No4
Brilliant, memorable folk rock song from the talented Australian Kevin Johnson.
15) Una Paloma Blanca - Jonathan King - UK105 - No5 1975
JK's cover of the George Baker Dutch song in 1975 - JK's version reached No4, George's hit No10 in the UK.
16) I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish - UK/USA2 1967/75
Originally released in 1967 but never a hit; picked up by UK Records in 1975 and a great favourite on the Northern Soul circuit.
17) Abraham Martin and John - Dion - UK/USA7 - No4 USA 1968/75
Superb treatment of the wonderful song by Dion - one of the greatest singers of all time.
18) Do You Love Me? - The Angelettes - UK26 1972
This song has been a massive hit - first for The Contours in 1962 on Motown and subsequently for Brian Poole and the Tremeloes in the UK in 1963. Written by Berry Gordy.
19) Is Your Love In Vain? - Eiri Thrasher - UK 1979
If any Bob Dylan song deserves to be a hit, it's this, from Street-Legal in 1978, and Eiri Thrasher's wonderful rendition shows it in an entirely different light.
Disc Two.
1) Rubber Bullets - 10cc - UK36 - No1 - 1973
Huge smash from 10cc - also sold well in the USA.
2) Disco Matilda - Dame Edna Everage - UK/Charisma 1979
Produced along with Two Little Girls (named Edna and Madge) and Lightning Strikes with the brilliant Barry Humphries.
3) Help Me Make It Through The Night - Jonathan King/Eiri Thrasher UK75 1973
Contrasting duet version of the Kris Kristofferson song; a US hit for Sammi Smith and Gladys Knight.
4) I'm Waiting For The Man - Tina Harvey - UK141 1973
Tina sings Lou Reed; splendid treatment.
5) Paper Moon - Nemo - UK58 1974
The 1933 Jazz song given a different rendition; the song became a film in 1973.
6) Donna - 10cc - UK6 No2 1972
Their first hit and the one that inspired their name; it sold millions around the world.
7) Loop di Love - Shag - UK7 No3 1972
Another massive UK hit from 1972.
8) I'd Love You To Want Me - Lobo - UK68 No5UK/USA2 1972
On first release in Britain this flopped, so UK Records acquired the rights and sent it into the Top 5.
9) It Only Takes A Minute - One Hundred Ton and a Feather - UK135 No9 1976
The biggest UK hit version of the great Tavares song, later covered by Take That.
10) It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous - Decca/UK No5 1965
Not only a 1965 UK hit but revived as the theme for the Australian version of Have I Got News For You, and earning loads more royalties in this century.
11) Let It All Hang Out - Jonathan King - UK No26 1970
Another smash song which has been featured in a series of TV campaigns.
12) Just One Cornetto - Count Giovanni di Regina - UK/Magnet 1978
From the TV commercial again, a full length version of the classic Walls Ice Cream advert from the seventies.
13) My Love My Life - Jonathan King - UK 1976
One of the greatest yet least known Abba songs.
14) 17 - Simon Turner - UK20 1972
An early example of "teen pop".
15) Learning The Game - One Hundred Ton and a Feather - UK 1976
The Buddy Holly song given a more modern treatment after the Moog had arrived on the music scene.
16) Leap Up And Down - St Cecilia - UK/Polydor No12 1971
This sold hundreds of thousands and stuck around for months; only Jimmy Young on Radio One would play it; without blanket airplay it sold huge quantities.
17) Flirt - Jonathan King - UK/Decca - No22 1972
A great French song by Michel Delpech - JK wrote the English lyric and sang it into the UK Top Thirty.
18) People Will Say We're In Love - Bubblerock - UK65 1974
A superb Rodgers and Hammerstein song from the 1943 musical Oklahoma; another totally different treatment.
19) The Last Thing On My Mind - Triban - UK/Decca 1970
The Tom Paxton folk song recorded by Triban, Eiri Thrasher's first band. Many have done this beautiful song including Joan Baez and The Seekers.
20) Chick-A-Boom - 53rd and 3rd - UK2012 No36 1975
Richard Monda's song originally sung by him as Daddy Dewdrop and a No3 hit in 1971 in America.
21) Stranger On The Shore - Sound 9418 - UK127
The Acker Bilk standard - it reached No1 in the US in 1961 by him.
Disc Three.
1) Gimme Some - Brendon - UK158 No14 1976/7
Great cover by Brendon of the KC and the Sunshine Band song; a hit in the US for Jimmy Bo Horne; a huge hit for Brendon in 1976/7.
2) Shotgun Wedding - Roy C - UK19 No8 1972
Originally in the UK Top Ten on Island in 1966; UK Records acquired the rights and rereleased it back into the ten in 1972.
3) The Sun Has Got His Hat On - Nemo EMI/UK 1971
A 1932 hit written by Noel Gay, JK revived it in 1971 after legendary BBC Producer Bernie Andrews played it to him.
4) It's The Same Old Song - The Weathermen - UK No19 1971
The Four Tops went into the US Top Five with this in 1965 but it flopped in Britain so JK covered it in 1971 and went into the Top Twenty.
5) You Were On My Mind - The Sun Singers - UK12 1972
We Five went Top Five in America with this Ian and Sylvia song in 1965; Crispian St Peters covered it for a UK Top Five hit in 1966.
6) Seaside Shuffle - Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs - UK5 No2 1972
John Lewis later became Jona Lewi but this is his first hit from 1972. John is giggling at the end of the original UK Records master.
7) Share Your Love - Hope Clarke UK/USA12 1975
A beautiful version of this song, also sung (less well) by Aretha Franklin. Al Green's band backs her.
8) I Understand - Freddie and the Dreamers - UK55 1973 No5 1964
Freddie Garrity had a Top Five smash with this reworking of Auld Lang Syne in 1964 and rerecorded it for a UK Records release in 1973.
9) Hooked On A Feeling - Jonathan King - UK No23 1971
After BJ Thomas had a small country hit with this great song in the USA, JK came up with the idea of grunted male reggae voices and did this version which became a hit all over Europe and was later covered by a Swedish group.
10) Nowhere To Run - Tina Harvey - UK24 1973
A very unusual version of the Martha and the Vandellas US No8 from 1965.
11) Cherry Cherry - Jonathan King UK/Decca 1970
JK's version of the great Neil Diamond song, a big hit all over Europe.
12) Where The Sour Turns To Sweet - Genesis - UK/Decca 1969
The original version of the song before strings and brass were added for the finished album.
13) Satisfaction - Bubblerock - UK53 No29 1974
Mick Jagger told JK that this was the best version of his song after the Rolling Stones original.
14) Bobby Dazzler - The First Class - UK73 1974
The wonderful followup to Beach Baby, written and produced by John Carter and sung by Tony Burrows.
15) Desiderata - David - UK115 - 1975
The DJ Dave Cash narrates his version of the great 1906 words for the Les Crane American No8/UK No7 from 1971.
16) Have You Seen Your Mother… Tina Harvey - UK 1972
A truly different interpretation of the Rolling Stones classic song.
17) To My Daughter - Noele Gordon - UK76 1974
Noele Gordon played Meg Richardson in the ITV soap opera Crossroads; this is her touching song for mothers and daughters everywhere.
18) Old Wild Men - 10cc - UK 1972
A less well known but wonderful 10cc song; we are all Old Wild Men now, boys.
19) Wild World - Jonathan King - UKP001 1987
JK's take on Wild World, a Cat Stevens song and Jimmy Cliff 1970 hit that he felt may have influenced The Pet Shop Boys when they recorded their No1 UK, It's A Sin.
Disc Four.
1) Lazybones - Jonathan King - UK142 No23 1971
The fantastic 1933 Hoagy Carmichael song which JK sang in 1971 and which hit No33 on the USA Easy Listening chart.
2) She Was Just A Young Girl - Simon Turner - UK60 1974
Appropriate for all the teen fans of David Cassidy, Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson in the 70s.
3) I Am An Astronaut - Ricky Wilde - UK18 1972
A huge hit for UK Records in Sweden and covered by numerous artistes since like Snow Patrol.
4) Double Barrel - Jenny One Shot - UK/RCA 1971
A bizarre reworking of the reggae smash for Dave and Ansell Collins, a No1 in the UK. Jenny was, in fact, session singer Barbara Kay, who was also lead vocalist with The Piglets on Johnny Reggae.
5) Return of the Red Baron - The Baron's Supporters - UK46 1973
Snoopy vs The Red Baron was a No2 US hit in 1966 for The Royal Guardsmen (No8 in the UK) and this song, the followup, reached No15 in the USA in 1967 (No37 UK).
6) One For You, One For Me - Jonathan King - UK No29 1978
JK prancing about on Top of the Pops in a multi coloured rainbow wig was a recent talking point when the show was rebroadcast by the BBC in 2013.
7) Life In England - Brendon - UK147 1976
One of Brendon's own songs; this caused him to be signed to UK Records - we made the mistake of getting him to do many covers, and he hit the Top 20 with Gimme Some, but we should have encouraged his writing skills.
8) He's So Fine - Jonathan King - UK132 1976
JK's witty comment on the similarity melodically, of The Chiffons 1963 hit, to George Harrison's My Sweet Lord, with backing vocals chanting the titles of his other songs, was played in court, leading to him losing the plagiarism suit brought by the composers of He's So Fine. George never spoke to JK again.
9) Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Tina Harvey - UK 1972
JK still thinks this is the best intro of any of his productions. A very different performance of the Neil Young song.
10) It's A Tall Order For A Short Guy - Jonathan King UK1 1972
Our very first UK Records single and it flopped - but I think it still sounds good.
11) Harry and the Hulahoops - Pat Codd - UK80 1974
A very obscure UK Records piece of pop fluff yet I've always had a soft spot for it; I think it embodies pop charm.
31) I Can't Get It Out Of My Head - One Hundred Ton and a Feather - UK 1977
One of the very few covers that, I think, gets closer to the spirit of the lyric than the ELO original did; Jeff Lynne (a huge talent) - do you agree?
12) I Don't Wanna Know - Brendon UK 1978
Perhaps the least known song on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, it also happens to be my personal favourite.
13) I Will Be There - Gogmagog - UK/FFT 1985
Russ Ballard is a great and under rated writer; he played such a huge part in 60s and 70s pop and rock that I feel entitled to include his song I Will Be There - by some great rockers from the 70s.
14) A Lifetime of Loneliness - Tina Harvey - UK 1972
Wow; people tend to forget Jackie de Shannon - the combination of her, Bacharach and David produced some marvellous music; this is my tribute (and Tina's) to all three of them.
15) If You Wanna Be Happy - Sloply Bellywell - UK87 1975
A hilarious, politically non correct lyric; a hit for Jimmy Soul in 1963. "Never make a pretty woman your wife". Superb.
16) Miss Wire Waist - Carl Malcolm - UK113 1975
A hit for Carl in Jamaica before Fattie Bum Bum but we released it as his followup.
17) Mississipi - Jonathan King - UK146 1976
JK's treatment of the Pussycat No1 UK hit from 1976 released at the same time and withdrawn to let them have the success they deserved.
18) Gonna Fix You Good - Brendon - UK 1976
Another old 1966 American song from Little Anthony and the Imperials that never became a hit and warranted a new version in 1976
19) Growing Up - Alvin Stardust - UK/Magnet 1977
Bruce Springsteen hadn't really broken when Alvin Stardust did a version of his magnificent song Growin' Up in 1977.
20) Medley - Overture To A Career - Sound 9418 - UK 1976
Combining several Glenn Miller songs like Chattanooga Choo Choo (1941) and Pennsylvania 6-5000 (1940), American Patrol (1942) and St Louis Blues (1943) - this is a splendid medley to liven up the floor at parties. Featuring some of the best session musicians from Great Britain in the 70s and arranged by super talent Johnny Arthey, this session was such fun, all the musicians, arranger, engineers and producer were dancing around the studio whilst it was being recorded and that's the take we went with.


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Because who doesn't like a little freaky Friday action: Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid have swapped hair.
Balmain pulled a good old-fashioned hue switcheroo, opening its AW16/17 show at Paris Fashion Week with a blonde Kendall, sending a brunette Gigi down the runway behind her.
It's essentially what you and your best friend have done a zillion times: placing each other's ponytails on your heads to see what you'd look like with the other's hair colour (just me?) - except on a Paris Fashion Week catwalk with the help of some profesh hair stylists.
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|Publication number
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|Jan 7, 2002
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|Jul 10, 1998
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|James W. Arendt, Ching-Yun Chao, Rodolfo Ausgusto Mancisidor
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|International Business Machines Corporation
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|Patent Citations (30), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (15), Classifications (12), Legal Events (10)
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This is a Division of application Ser. No. 09/114,051, filed Jul. 10, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,427,163.
The present invention is related to the subject matter of commonly assigned, copending U.S. patent applications Ser. No. 09/164,130 entitled "A Rule-Based Cluster System Management Model" and filed Sep. 30, 1998 and Ser. No. 09/113674 entitled "A Highly Scalable and Highly Available Cluster System Management Scheme" and filed Jul. 10, 1998. The content of the above-referenced applications are incorporated herein by reference.
1. Technical Field
The present invention relates in general to cluster system management and in particular to management of very large scale clusters. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to partially distributing cluster configuration information for managing a very large scale cluster.
2. Description of the Related Art
A cluster system, also referred to as a cluster multiprocessor system (CMP) or simply as a "cluster," is a set of networked data processing systems with hardware and software shared among those data processing systems, typically but not necessarily configured to provide highly available and highly scalable application services. Cluster systems are frequently implemented to achieve high availability, an alternative to fault tolerance for mission-critical applications such as aircraft control and the like. Fault tolerant data processing systems rely on specialized hardware to detect hardware faults and switch to a redundant hardware component, regardless of whether the component is a processor, memory board, hard disk drive, adapter, power supply, etc. While providing seamless cutover and uninterrupted performance, fault tolerant systems are expensive, due to the redundant hardware requirement, and fail to address software errors, a more common source of data processing system failure.
High availability utilizes standard hardware, but provides software allowing resources to be shared system wide. When a node, component, or application fails, an alternative path to the desired resource is quickly established. The brief interruption required to reestablish availability of the resource is acceptable in many situations. The hardware costs are significantly less than fault tolerant systems, and backup facilities may be utilized during normal operation. An example of the software utilized for these purposes is the HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing) for AIX� (Advanced Interactive Executive) software available from International Business Machines Corporation of Armonk, N.Y. and the RS6000 SP software available from International Business Machines Corporation.
The cluster system management problem is a special class of the general system management problem, with additional resource dependency and management policy constraints. In particular, the maintenance of cluster configuration information required for system management poses a special problem. The cluster configuration information required for system management is typically stored in a database, which is either centralized or replicated to more than one data processing system for high availability. The data processing system which manages a centralized cluster configuration database becomes a potential bottleneck and a single point of failure.
To avoid the problems of a centralized cluster configuration database, the database may be replicated and maintained on a number of data processing systems within the cluster. In a small cluster, the system configuration and status information may be readily replicated to all data processing systems in the cluster for use by each data processing system in performing system management functions such as failure recovery and load balancing. Full replication provides a highly available cluster configuration database and performs adequately as long as the cluster size remains small (2 to 8 data processing systems). In a very large cluster, however, the costs associated with full replication are prohibitively high.
In order to keep a distributed database in a consistent state at all times, a two-phase commit protocol may be utilized. For a fully replicated database (i.e. every data processing system has a copy), 2N messages must be exchanged for each write operation, where N is the number of data processing systems in the cluster. Thus, while the size of a cluster configuration/status database grows linearly with respect to cluster size, access time to the database grows either linearly or logarithmically with respect to cluster size. Moreover, when bringing up a cluster, the number of events (and therefore the amount of status information which needs to be updated) grows linearly with respect to cluster size. Hence, the time or cost required to bring up a cluster with a fully replicated distributed cluster configuration database grows on the order of N2. The complexity of cluster system management may thus be characterized as being on the order of N2. For very large scale cluster systems (over 1,000 data processing systems), full replication of the cluster configuration database becomes unwieldy.
Another critical issue in highly available cluster systems is how to handle network partitions. Network partitions occur if a cluster is divided into two or more parts, where data processing systems in one part cannot communicate with data processing systems in another part. When a network partition occurs, it is crucial not to run multiple copies of the same application, especially a database application such as the cluster configuration database, from these (temporarily) independent parts of the cluster. A standard way of handling this problem is to require that a cluster remain offline unless it reaches quorum. The definition of quorum varies. In some implementations, a majority quorum is employed and a portion of the cluster is said to have reached quorum when the number of active servers in that portion is at least N/2+1. A different scheme may require a smaller number of servers to be active to reach quorum as long as the system can guarantee that at most only one portion of the cluster can reach quorum. In a very large scale cluster, the condition for quorum tends to be too restrictive. A majority quorum is used herein, although the invention is applicable to other forms of quorum.
Thus, when a network partition occurs, only the portion of the cluster (if any) which contains the majority of the data processing systems in the cluster may run applications. Stated differently, no services are provided by the cluster unless at least one half of the data processing systems within the cluster are online.
It would be desirable, therefore, to provide a mechanism for maintaining a distributed database containing cluster configuration information without incurring the costs associated with full replication. It would further be advantageous for the mechanism to be scalable and applicable to clusters of any size, even those larger than 1,000 data processing systems. It would further be advantageous to permit cluster portions to continue providing services after a network partition even if a quorum has not been reached.
It is therefore one object of the present invention to provide an improved method and apparatus for cluster system management.
It is another object of the present invention to provide and improved method and apparatus for management of very large scale clusters.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for partially distributing cluster configuration information for managing a very large scale cluster.
The foregoing objects are achieved as is now described. A cluster system is treated as a set of resource groups, each resource group including a highly available application and the resources upon which it depends. A resource group may have between 2 and M data processing systems, where M is small relative to the cluster size N of the total cluster. Configuration and status information for the resource group is fully replicated only on those data processing systems which are members of the resource group. A configuration object/database record for the resource group has an associated owner list identifying the data processing systems which are members of the resource group and which may therefore manage the application. A data processing system may belong to more than one resource group, however, and configuration and status information for the data processing system is replicated to each data processing system which could be affected by failure of the subject data processing system—that is, any data processing system which belongs to at least one resource group also containing the subject data processing system. The partial replication scheme of the present invention allows resource groups to run in parallel, reduces the cost of data replication and access, is highly scalable and applicable to very large clusters, and provides better performance after a catastrophe such as a network partition.
The above as well as additional objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed written description.
The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objects and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
With reference now to the figures, and in particular with reference to
Each node 104-110 within system 102 includes an operating system, such as the Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX�) operating system available from International Business Machines Corporation of Armonk, N.Y. or the Windows NT™ operating system available from Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash. Nodes 104-110 within system 102 also include high availability cluster software capable of running on top of or in conjunction with the operating system. This high availability cluster software includes the features described below.
Nodes 104-110 are connected to public local area networks 112-114, which may be an Ethernet, Token-Ring, fiber distributed data interface (FDDI), or other network. Public networks 112-114 provide clients 116-120 with access to servers 104-110. Clients 116-120 are data processing systems which may access, each running a "front end" or client application which queries server applications running on nodes 104-110.
Typically, each node 104-110 runs server or "back end" applications which access data on shared external disks 122-126 via disk buses 128-130. Nodes 104-110 may also be connected by an additional network 132 or networks. For example, a private network may provide point-to-point connection between nodes 104-110 within system 102, with no access provided to clients 116-120. The private network, if available, may be utilized for lock traffic, and may be an Ethernet, Token-Ring, FDDI, or serial optical channel connector (SOCC) network. A serial network may also provide point-to-point communication between nodes 104-110, used for control messages and heartbeat traffic in the event that an alternative subsystem fails.
As depicted in the exemplary embodiment, system 102 may include some level of redundancy to eliminate single points of failure. For example, each node 104-110 may be connected to each public network 112-114 by two network adapters (not shown): a service adapter providing the primary active connection between a node and network and a standby adapter which substitutes for the service adapter in the event that the service adapter fails. Thus, when a resource within system 102 becomes unavailable, alternative resources may be quickly substituted for the failed resource.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the hardware depicted in the exemplary embodiment of
Referring to
One major use of cluster configuration information is to make cluster resources highly available. As an example, if a data processing system within a cluster fails, applications on that data processing system will migrate to other data processing systems. Therefore, services provided by a failed data processing system will, after a brief interruption, be continuously available. For an application or other resource to be highly available, a number of data processing systems within the cluster are configured to run that application or resource, although usually at most only one data processing system manages one highly available application at any single instant in time.
In accordance with the present invention, a highly available application and all those resources upon which it depends form a resource group. Each resource group has an ordered list of data processing systems which may manage the group. The number of data processing systems within a resource group varies from 2 to M, where M is typically very small as compared to the cluster size N for a large cluster. The configuration and status information is organized as configuration objects within a database, with each highly available resource group having a configuration and status object. The configuration and status object for a resource group has an associated list of owners, which is identical to the list of data processing systems which may manage the corresponding resource group. The configuration and status information object is replicated only to data processing systems within the list of owners.
The exemplary embodiment of
Each configuration object/database record for a resource group is replicated only to data processing systems within the associated list of owners for the configuration object since that is where the information is most frequently employed. No data processing system in a very large cluster contains configuration and status information for all data processing systems in the entire cluster, except in the unlikely circumstance that an application utilizes all data processing systems in the cluster. In such an event, a configuration object for the application may have an owner list including all data processing systems in the cluster.
Unlike the configuration objects/database records for a resource group, the configuration and status information for a given data processing system is replicated to every data processing system within its sphere of influence (i.e. those data processing systems which form part of at least one resource group with the subject data processing system and therefore might be influenced by failure of the subject data processing system). Thus, for example, data processing systems 202 and 214 each have a sphere of influence 228 depicted in
When an event such as a data processing system failure occurs within a cluster configured for partial replication of configuration and status information in accordance with the present invention, only the resource groups which have the failed data processing system as an owner are affected. Necessary recovery actions are coordinated among all owners on a group by group basis. By allowing a designated list of associated owners and only those owners manage a configuration object/database record, a very large cluster is effectively managed as a collection of autonomous groups which run in parallel.
The complexity of managing a resource group having M data processing systems is M2, and since M is usually much smaller than the size N of a large cluster, significant performance improvements may be achieved both in replicating a configuration and status database and in access information in a database distributed among the M data processing systems. The response time for managing system events is significantly faster sing the complexity of cluster system management has been reduced by a factor of (M/N)2. With the approach of the present invention, both the number of messages transmitted in a two-phase commit protocol to update a configuration and status database and the database access time are reduced significantly by involving only a subset of data processing systems within the cluster.
A separate, cluster configuration database may be implemented on top of the resource group configuration database. The cluster configuration database would be replicated to all data processing systems within the cluster and contain cluster configuration and status information regarding networks, data processing systems, cluster system events, etc.
The partitioning of the nine-node example depicted in
ha_resource_groups{ ha_resource_group=ha_resource_group_220 current_computer_id=202; } computers{ computer_id=202 recovery_status="up"; computer_id=214 recovery_status="up"; }
A simplified example of the configuration database managed by node group 230 would be:
ha_resource_groups{ ha_resource_group=ha_resource_group_222 current_computer_id=204; } computers{ computer_id=204 recovery_status="up"; computer_id=216 recovery_status="up"; }
A simplified example of the configuration database managed by node group 232 would be:
ha_resource_groups{ ha_resource_group=ha_resource_group_224 current_computer_id=206; } computers{ computer_id=206 recovery_status="up"; computer_id=218 recovery_status="up"; }
A simplified example of the configuration database managed by node group 240 would be:
ha_resource_groups{ ha_resource_group=ha_resource_group_226 current_computer_id=208; } computers{ computer_id=208 recovery_status="up"; }
A simplified example of the configuration database managed by node group 234 would be:
computers{ computer_id=208 recovery_status="up"; }
A simplified example of the configuration database managed by node group 236 would be:
computers{ computer_id=210 recovery_status="up"; }
And finally, a simplified example of the configuration database managed by node group 238 would be:
As an example of recovery is such a partitioned system, suppose node 208 should fail. The recovery_status of node 208 is modified to 'down' by the remaining group members of group 234, which includes nodes 202, 214, 210, and 212. The resulting configuration database for node group 234 is:
computers{ computer_id=208 recovery_status="down"; }
The application ha_resource_group_226, which was running on node 208 must be restarted on some other node. This application is managed by resource group 240 and therefore may be restarted on either node 210 or node 212. If node 210 is selected by the two remaining nodes in resource group 240 to run ha_resource_group_226, the resulting configuration database for node group 240 would be:
As an example of quorum condition within resource groups, supposed the entire nine-node cluster is restarted and initially only nodes 202 and 208 are up and running. The application ha_resource_group_220, which is managed by group 228, has reached quorum condition. Nodes 202 and 208 may determine between themselves which node should run ha_resource_group_220. This approach allows ha_resource_group_220 to run without compromising data integrity even though the cluster as a whole does not have quorum—i.e. only 2 nodes are up among the total of nine nodes. The application ha_resource_group_226, on the other hand, which is managed by group 240, has one node (node 208) within the group, and therefore does not have quorum condition.
The partial replication management approach of the present invention also handles catastrophes such as network partitions better than a centralized or fully replicated scheme. With partial replication of configuration and status information only among resource group owners, each resource group within a cluster may provide services if more than one half of the data processing systems within the corresponding owner list are online. Therefore, a cluster with partial replication of configuration information may continue to provide reliable services even if broken into small pieces, each much smaller than a quorum of all data processing systems in the cluster.
By partitioning the configuration database and allowing each sub-cluster of servers to manage their configuration, a sub-cluster of servers may start providing services when it reaches "quorum," which may occur before the cluster as a whole reaches quorum. The "quorum" of resource group nodes which must be online need not necessarily be a majority of the node in the resource group, provided that at least one service may be reliably provided by the resource group. Furthermore, it may happen that the cluster may not be able to reach quorum if, for example, multiple failures occur. In such a case, sub-clusters may continue to provide their services as long as they have quorum. This is an advantage accompanying the partial replication method of the present invention, which associates quorum condition with each resource group while existing schemes associate quorum with the cluster as a whole.
Recovery actions and load balancing are performed by servers in each resource group on a per group basis. In other words, the resource allocation decisions are made by servers within a resource group. When multiple resource groups share one or more servers in common, race conditions may occur if resource allocation decisions are not coordinated. For example,
Resource groups which share one or more servers in common must also share configuration and status information and also coordinate their resource allocation decisions. This is achieved by requiring those servers that are common to both resource groups to serialize resource allocation decisions of both groups. For example, as shown in
With reference now to
If the configuration and status information change is not a cluster-level change, the process proceeds instead to step 308, which depicts replicating the change among the node within the resource group affected by the change. Configuration and status information changes which affect only an application or the associated resource group need only be replicated throughout the resource group. A resource group manager, which may simply be the node within the resource group currently having the highest precedence, is utilized to insure proper replication of the configuration and status information change.
The process next passes to step 310, which illustrates a determination of whether a node within the resource group is shared with another resource group. If so, the process proceeds to step 312, which depicts replicating the configuration and status change to all nodes within the other resource group or groups. The node or nodes shared by the different resource groups are responsible for insuring proper replication. In this respect, interlocking resource groups within the cluster system are undesirable since it requires additional replication of configuration and status information. Further replication is not necessary, however, so that the change need not be replicated to resource groups within the cluster system which have no nodes in common with the resource group affected by the change.
Once the information is fully replicated among all nodes within the affected resource group or resource groups having at least one node in common with the affected resource group, or if the affected resource group does not include any nodes shared with another resource group, the process proceeds to step 314, which illustrates the process becoming idle until a subsequent configuration and status information change is detected.
Referring to
If a quorum of nodes within the resource group is available, the process proceeds to step 406, which depicts continuing providing services utilizing available nodes. Some reallocation of resources may be necessary. The process then passes to step 408, which illustrates a determination of whether the failed node has been restored. If not, the process simply returns to step 408. If so, however, the process proceeds to step 410, which depicts reintegrating the node and reallocating resources as necessary.
Referring again to step 404, if a quorum of nodes is not available, the process proceeds instead to step 412, which illustrates suspending services from the affected resource group. The process then passes to step 414, which depicts a determination of whether the failed node has been restored. As described above, if the failed node has not yet been restored, the process simply returns to step 414. Once the failed node is restored, however, the process proceeds to step 416, which illustrates reintegrating the node and resuming services from the resource group affected. From either of steps 410 or 416, the process passes to step 418, which depicts the process becoming idle until another node failure occurs.
The present invention makes use of the localization feature of a large-scale cluster system to decompose the large-scale full replication problem into a set of fully replicated sub-cluster systems. Records are only replicated to those data processing systems which need that piece of configuration information. Such partial replication reduces the costs of replication and data manipulation significantly. The cost increase only as a function of the number of data processing systems within a resource group, not as a function of the total number of data processing systems. Thus the management scheme of the present invention is highly scalable and applicable to very large cluster systems having in excess of 1,000 data processing systems.
It is important to note that while the present invention has been described in the context of a fully functional cluster multi-processing system, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mechanism of the present invention is capable of being distributed in the form of a computer readable medium of instructions in a variety of forms, and that the present invention applies equally regardless of the particular type of signal bearing media used to actually carry out the distribution. Examples of computer readable media include: nonvolatile, hard-coded type media such as read only memories (ROMs) or erasable, electrically programmable read only memories (EEPROMs), recordable type media such as floppy disks, hard disk drives and CD-ROMs, and transmission type media such as digital and analog communication links.
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.
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We are flying in and out of Amsterdam in June (two friends and myself) and we are 40 something females who love to run, eat, enjoy history and going to museums. We will be there for eight nights. We were wondering if we should rent an apartment (found some great ones on VRBO) and have this as our home base all week and do day trips from Amsterdam? We found a race to run in Amsterdam while we are there. We are also considering an overnight to Bruges. Will this be too much time spent in Amsterdam or should we try to do more cities?
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How about say staying 2-3 days in Bruges and using that as a base too to hop to Gent, Antwerp or Brussels - all interesting cities close to Bruges by train.
That said Amsterdam has a surfeit of neat stuff to do - for lots of interests - and zillions of great day trips - like to the famous windmill group at Zaanse Schans and Haarlem both in a day; The Hague, Rotterdam (one of my favorite Dutch cities - not your dreamy old-world place like Bruges but avant-garde modern architecture and several great museums; Utrecht; Delft and the Delftware Workshops and museum of this very famous porcelain; Marken and Volendam; Alkmmar for the Friday morning cheese market; and on and on.
Be sure to get the national museum card - just a few major museums will make it pay off and you get priority entry at ones with long ticket lines - the Anne Frank House is now included as would be museums in all those day trip towns - like the famous Mauritshuis in The Hague or the Frans Hal Museum in Haarlem). A nice thing about the pass, bought at any participating museum, is that you can easily go into any museum even if you know diddily about it and not think well 'is this worth several euros to get in' - so many neat museums off the radar of most tourists - like the Dutch Resistance Museum; the Amsterdam branch of St Petersburg's Hermitage; the Ship Museum; Botanical Gardens; The Lord in the Attic; The Ruebens House and on and on.
Personally as a person who just loves Amsterdam and has stayed there for weeks at a time I think 8 days in it may be a bit too much for some - nice to also stay in a smaller let's say more real Dutch town - Amsterdam is very cosmopolitan with tons of foreign visitors and English as the lingua franca it seems in the city center.
I'd even consider staying in say Haarlem which I have often done and commute the 20-minutes into Amsterdam - a much more real Dutch town and one that has lots of things to do too - much more quiet than Amsterdam. Probably get a place much cheaper there too!
Anyway take the train around Holland to all cities you'd want to visit - trains go all the time - to get to Bruges you take a train to Antwerp, change there for direct trains to Bruges - about 3.5 hours all told - you can visit lovely Antwerp for a few hours - put your bags in a station locker and waltz around the nearby town center.
For lots of info on Benelux trains - www.seat61.com; www.ricksteves.com and www.budgeteuropetravel.com - check the latter's free online European Planning & Rail Guide's chapter on Netherlands and Belgium for lots of suggested day trips from Amsterdam or Bruges. There is a Benelux Railpass if traveling long enough on several days - IME of decades of riding Benelux trains I'd suggest first class as many of these are commuter trains that can in 2nd class always be SRO - not always but many times - first class will be sparsely occupied.
www.ns.nl is the official site of the Dutch Railways - ask at stations about day return (daag retour) tickets - slightly cheaper than two one ways - not sure on current status of those however.
Though a bit old here is a thread I and others have contributed to about lovely Amsterdam!
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BTW - The Grasshopper is one of Amsterdam's most famous coffeeshops (don't ask for coffee!).
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If you want to see what a coffeeshop looks like or is like but don't care to go in - the famous Grasshopper.
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I am not certain why Pal has decided you want to know about establishments where you can smoke grass and/or bu the stuff. If you DO then often your hotel will gladly tell you about locations, assuming you are staying in a hotel.
I have been to A-dam many times over the past 40 years and like you, love museums, and last year spent one night just so I could go to the finally-reopened Rijksmuseum. BUT, I think 8 nights in the city might be a bit much despite the presence of several major museums, all that running, and so forth.
I also would not spend THREE nights in Bruges when there are so many other places to see and things to do in the area.
Cannot comment on apartment rentals since I rarely do that bit wherever you stay, especially in Amsterdam, I think you'll want to be as close to public transport, e.g., tram lines (perhaps not so much the Metro) as possible.
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Pal, I thought they limit foreigner's access to pot, now?
I've usually stayed in AMS (technically Haarlem) for about 3-4 nights. I like the idea of moving on to Bruges and see parts of Belgium.
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Bitter - TMK they did that in 2012 but it did not fly and was repealed - needing a Dutch ID to get into a coffeeshop but was being reintroduced in 2014 - since I have not been in Amsterdam the past two years I'm not sure what the current situation exactly is.
Hard to believe though that Amsterdam is going to turn its back on drug tourists, not all of whom are poor but includes many wealthy Americans.
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Agreed, Pal. However, I can understand putting pressure on the establishments to be more subtle. I remember some rasta-inspired signs/flags when I was there. Kind of garish/juvenile against the beautiful old buildings/canals.
I remember on my first trip being a bit naive about coffee shops. It took me a few minutes to realize that the place I ventured into sold more than coffee.
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Another vote for Haarlem, the railway station is a doll's house mixing Art Deco and steam ship design in wood and tiles, one of my favorite stations. The centre is pretty and all easy to get to from the airport and the city centre.
I looked at appartments to rent about 4 years back and prices looked very good, but B&B good too
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For a Haarlem B&B I would recommend this one I have stayed at a few times - run by a brother and sister - right near the center of Haarlem - direct buses stop out front to Schiphol Airport - not sure all rooms are en-suite however - can use common kitchen - unlimited breakfast - self-serve.
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In addition to Brugge, do consider Gent, a much more lively city by night: it's a student town and expect many good bars that serve excellent Belgian beer. Gent is known for its convivial bar scene.
And yes, do consider day trips from Amsterdam. Trains are super easy and a hour by train gets you deep into the Netherlands. You could easily visit Utrecht, Delft, Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam. But also plan a trip to Enkhuizen or Alkmaar. And 8 days could get you even to Texel if you make it an overnight.
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Thank you for your responses. It just happened that my sign in name is Grasshopper- so no hidden innuendo on my end, although it was ironic. That said, the pictures of this establishment are quite pretty. We have decided to leave Amsterdam and travel to Ghent for a few days. We have found a train from Ghent to Amsterdam, arriving at Schipol Airport at 10:24 a.m. for a 1:00 p.m. flight back to the U.S. Will that give us enough time to go through customs and board the airplane?
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Belgium has had train strikes recently - I would never chance not being in my departure city if I had a non-refundble flight - there is no direct train from Gent to Amsterdam but you'll have to change in Antwerp Central.
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I agree with Pal. That said, if you can still change it, consider flying home from Brussels. Easiest connection I have ever made from the center of the city. (Short train ride to the airport).
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From the Belgian Railways site - strikes are announced usually far in advance - like the one for April 22 - at least check the site if depending on the train that day and other things like accidents can block the tracks and even wildcat strikes.
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damn this is a lonely thread, could somebody please leave something
should i translate it to chinese?
actually i dont differenciate foreign and chinese guys. i think for me, the most important is a big heart.
but i gotta say there are several things that i dont consider attractive, mainly on chinese guys i think, too quiet, and less outgoing; but foreign guys, less thoughtful...yep, that's a dilemma.
i agree with the girl upstairs
to differ the chinese and foreigner guys, chinese are more tolerance with the girls but foreigners are not; foreigners are more responsible with the family if they are serious, but also depends on the people whom you meet with
Thanks for the input, please keep this thread running, I'd like to hear more people's perspectives
My idea is: optimistic attitude of life > Personality> knowledge.
i dont agree with 'dominency in the male world'..i think a man that can take care of the family and always be there for them is enough. dominency in the male world is a comfort guys give to themselves
if you are not a chinese lady, please don't post in this thread!!!
Mr. Tang, when you put these into a thesis, I hope you put some kinda of "some Chinese women's standards" or "Wemen of WLIB"...this site decides the SMAPLE can't represnt alot.
To evalute a guy, personally, very flexiable, but it has nothing to do with his nationality here.
WLIB is just a sample of the sample population Ms. Thanks for your concerns though, I will surely make sure my results are thoroughly analyzed before I make any conclusions. Thanks for your input
what does flexable mean by the way?
Its like a checklist:
- House?
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good call guy, but lets not start an argument in this thread and get too carried away from the original questions...Please stop posting if you aren't a Chinese woman
Hahahahahaha ... I was talking to my wife, and she asked me to write this here:
1. personality
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uncle DD, u r perfect~hehe...
(continued) ... my wife answers: no he is not ...
then ur wife must be perfect one~haha...
(continued) ... Aunty speaking: Nirvana ... money is important, but never a priority ...
Ok, the survey is ready to be sent out to any one who wants to be a part of it. Its an excel file and it contains 60 questions that will help me research and find connections between single Chinese women and their views on dating and marriage issues. Please send me a message on this site with your email and I will happily send you the survey. It's very easy, and quite interesting. Chinese single women only. Thanks


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