Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Team

Timestamp:

Sep 14, 2009, 12:18:39 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

Gabriele Pohl

Comment:

Transfer content from homepage to here

Team

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+= The developers and supporters of smartmontools =
+
+[[PageOutline(3,Table of Contents, inline)]]
+
+{{{
+#!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:left; background-color: #E6E6FA; padding:10px; margin-right:30px;"
+[[Image(http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/pics/BruceAndCat_2008_04_22-sm.jpg)]]
+}}}
+
+=== Bruce Allen (Initiator and Project Leader) ===
+I am a professor of physics at the U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and a Director of the Albert Einstein
+Institute in Hannover, which is operated by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and Leibniz University Hannover.
+
+I got interested in SMART because of my research work.  I work on data analysis
+for gravitational waves (the LIGO, GEO and VIRGO detectors) and my research groups build and operate
+large computer clusters for this purpose.
+My research group at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover operates a cluster with
+2400 disks (the Atlas Cluster) and 1100 TB of storage. My research group at U. Wisconsin - Milwaukee 
+runs a [http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/beowulf/nemo/ beowulf cluster] 
+with 1200 (SATA-II) distributed disks attached to hardware RAID controllers.  
+We have more than 300 TB disk space on that system. 
+It's nice to have advanced warning when a disk is going to fail.
+
+Smartmontools is the only open-source software project that I manage. When smartmontools first started in 2002,
+I did most of the coding and real work.  I was lucky to quickly find several other developers like Doug Gilbert and
+Christian Franke who knew much more than I did!  These days I mostly do coordination and cheerleading - 
+in any given technical area there are typically other developers who know more than I do.
+
+I also do some work on BOINC, and run the Einstein@Home distributed search for gravitational waves.
+
+----
+
+{{{
+#!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:right; background-color: #E6E6FA; padding:10px; margin-left:30px;"
+[[Image(http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/pics/chrfranke.jpg)]]
+}}}
+
+=== Christian Franke (Developer and Maintainer) ===
+
+My interest in hard disk monitoring actually starts when the disk of the christmas-gift-PC for
+my son failed in the evening of Dec. 23, 2003. This resulted in a first Windows port of smartctl checked
+in on Feb. 23, 2004. Future plan for smartmontools is a major redesign of smartd and the internal device
+interface, which benefits from the transition from C to C++.
+
+My other open source contributions include some small patches for Cygwin and Mozilla.org
+(Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey and Bugzilla) codebase, a Windows port of hdparm, and a recent Cygwin port
+of GRUB2.
+
+In real life, I hold a degree in computer science and work for a company developing applications for
+banking & finance.
+
+----
+
+=== Guido Guenther (Developer and Maintainer) ===
+Guido has a sharp eye for distribution issues and clean system architecture.
+He improves Makefiles, configuration and installation scripts, cares for packaging
+issues and makes sure that {{{Return Values}}} are correct. 
+Last not least, he added CCISS (Compaq Smart Array Controller) support with 
+contributions from Praveen Chidambaram, Douglas Gilbert and Frederic Boiteux.
+
+----
+
+{{{
+#!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:left; background-color: #FFFFCC; padding:10px; margin-right:30px;"
+[[Image(http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/pics/gap-woody.jpg)]]
+}}}
+=== Gabriele Pohl (Website Maintainer) ===
+Once upon a time I got an alarming BIOS message whilst booting my computer:
+{{{
+SMART Failure Predicted on Primary Master:
+Warning! Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A Failure may be imminent..
+}}}
+
+I was very curious, what it could be, that claimed to know, what's up with my harddisk. 
+I started an investigation about the predicted disk error and SMART in general,
+which leads me straightly to smartmontools. I use it for 4 years now and wrote two 
+[http://www.dipohl.de/publikationen/anleitung-zu-smartmontools.html articles] (German), 
+to spread good news about it. To help both, the project and the users, 
+I reorganized the smartmontools website a bit. I hope you'll like it.
+
+We have a main menu with seven sections, an integrated search engine and a new layout. 
+Next step will be, to update the websites content, so that it reflects the state of the 
+current version {{{5.3.8}}}. Conributions are welcome!
+Mail to [mailto:smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net smartmontools-support]
+list, if you have questions or want to add information.
+
+----
+
+{{{
+#!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:right; background-color: #E6E6FA; padding:10px; margin-left:30px;"
+[[Image(http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/pics/erwan.jpg)]]
+}}}
+
+=== Erwan Velu (Packager and Maintainer) ===
+
+My interest in SMART arose at my previous job at Mandriva. I was
+building up a Linux distribution to turn a set of computers into a super computer (HPC).
+While looking at how we can manage such a cluster, I was faced with some failing disks. 
+Doing a short research on that problem, I found this project.
+
+As I am also packaging applications in RPM for Mandriva Linux, I decided
+to include smartmontools in it. My role is to keep smartmontools
+up-to-date in the Linux distribution and reporting bugs to the
+developers. To be honest, this happens once in a blue moon.
+
+Since I am implicated in the smartmontools project, friends often ask me for
+help in understanding how theirs disks feels ;o). So I also wrote an 
+[http://www.lea-linux.org/documentations/index.php/Hardware-hard_plus-smart article about smartmontools]
+in French language.
+
+----
+
+=== Other portraits ===
+will follow..