OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a *nix environment, to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online package repository, either on or off site.
OSCAR installs on top of a standard installation of a supported Linux distribution. It installs and configures all required software for the selected packages according to user input. Then it creates customized disk images which are used to provision the computational nodes in the cluster with all the client software and administrative tools needed for immediate use. OSCAR also includes a robust and extensible testing architecture, ensuring that the cluster setup you have chosen is ready for production.
The default OSCAR setup is generally used for scientific computing using a message passing interface (MPI) implementation, several of which are included in the default OSCAR package set. One of OSCAR's strengths is that it is possible to install multiple MPI implementations on one cluster and switch easily between them, either at the system default level or the individual user level.
Other types of applications which use clusters of computers, such as load balancing web clusters and high availability clustering packages, would certainly be fairly easy to implement using the OSCAR package system but are outside the expertise of our current development team.
Anyone is welcome to contribute to OSCAR core development, or to submit packages to be included in the default OSCAR repositories. We are a community driven project and are always on the lookout for new talent and ideas.
Email osl-sysadmin@ osl . iu . edu or post a message to oscar-devel@… to get your subversion and trac account. We will send an invitation mail to let you create your own account for our systems(i.e., subversion and trac).
OSCAR on!
The OSCAR Development Team
We get closer from the release of OSCAR-6.1.0! In order to release OSCAR-6.1.0, the bugs related to OSCAR core must be closed. Lately, many of those tickets have been closed, it is the first time since many years that we have less than 30 open bugs on core (22 while writing those lines).
If you want to follow our progresses, a [http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=build+-+SystemConfigurator&component=build+-+SystemImager&c ...
OSCAR 6.0.4 has been released!
This release is a maintenance release, for a complete list of modifications, please refer to the ChangeLog. The following repositories are already available:
For more information about how to use that version, please refer to the documentation: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar ...
Updated on: 2009-10-06 01:10
This year again we organize a BoF at SuperComputing 2009 so the community can meet, speak about latest developments, ongoing work, and future developments.
The BoF is open to everyone, therefore if you are planning of attending SC09, feel free to attend the BoF and give your feedback about OSCAR.
For more information, please refer to the following document:
Updated on: 2009-09-26 00:48
No post has been published since May, mainly because the past few months have been busy. A summary of the latest news:
Updated on: 2009-09-26 00:49
OSCAR 6.0.3 has been released!
This release is a maintenance release, for a complete list of modifications, please refer to the ChangeLog. The following repositories are already available:
For details about the current status for those Linux distributions, please refer to the [http ...
OSCAR 6.0.2 has been released!
This release is a maintenance release, for a complete list of modifications, please refer to the ChangeLog. We are slowly updating the repositories for the binary packages.
We already started to work on OSCAR-6.0.3 which will include even more bug fixes and some new functionalities.
Updated on: 2009-04-08 10:37
Late bulletin this month, mostly because it was a busy month. We typically have two hot topics this month:
It is time again for mentoring organizations to sign up for this years Google Summer of Code effort. I am behind the times OSCAR wise and so I don't really have any good ideas for projects, but I am willing to put in applications and remind people about deadlines as I have in past years.
For this too work, we need a good pool of project ideas. I am putting up an project idea page here. Please add both short and more thought out project ideas in this space.
OSCAR 6.0.1 has been released!
This release is a maintenance release, for a complete list of modifications, please refer to the ChangeLog.
We already started to work on OSCAR-6.0.2 which will include even more bug fixes and some new functionalities.
The organizers for the 7th annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems invite authors to submit papers to this year's symposium, which is a track of the HPCS 2009 conference in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
The scope of the symposium has been extended to more generally include topics from all areas of high performance computer (HPC) clusters, with the focus being "Systems and management". For further details, please see the, ...
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