LinuxBIOS in Real Life (Have You Even Been to Los Alamos?)

• Already there:

  • The Superdense Server project (IBM Austin)
    • http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/475/felter.pdf

• Potentially:

  • iSCSI/iBOOT
  • Experimental hardware projects

• Difficulties:

  • Convince everybody there is a commercial advantage
  • Convince Marketing that they can convince potential customersג€¦
  • Convince Legal that open source (GPL) is not exactly AIDS
  • Deal with existing and emerging de-facto standards (e.g. EFI)

• Create a market:

  • LANL RFPed 2 clusters requiring LinuxBIOS at $19MM ג€“ vendors lined up