OSCAR 6.1.1 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:

• debian-5-x86_64 (including Ubuntu 10.04),
• rhel-5-i386 (including CentOS 5 i386),
• rhel-5-x86_64 (including CentOS 5 x86_64).

For more information about how to use that version, please refer to the documentation: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/InstallGuide

OSCAR 6.1.0 has been released!

This release is the first release based on the new architecture and not having known core bugs. For a complete list of modifications, please refer to the ChangeLog. The following repositories are already available:

• debian-5-x86_64 (including Ubuntu 10.04),
• rhel-5-i386 (including CentOS 5 i386),
• rhel-5-x86_64 (including CentOS 5 x86_64).

For more information about how to use that version, please refer to the documentation: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/InstallGuide

Since the core of OSCAR is now stable, we will focus again on fixing bugs touching third-party software (e.g., Torque), on including new features, and on supporting more Linux distributions.

This is also the first stable release automatically generated using the oscar-packager tool. If you encounter any issue, please contact the development team using the  mailing list.

The 0.4.5 version of the OSCAR Package Compiler (OPKGC) has been released.

The list of modifications is available here: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/browser/pkgsrc/opkgc/tags/0.4.5/ChangeLog

The server hosting the OSCAR repositories is back online. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Due to system maintenance, the OSCAR repositories will be offline today and tomorrow (Aug 17 & 18). Sorry for the inconvenience.

The 0.4.4 version of the OSCAR Package Compiler (OPKGC) has been released.

The list of modification is available here: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/browser/pkgsrc/opkgc/tags/0.4.4/ChangeLog

OSCAR 6.0.5 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:

• debian-4-x86_64
• rhel-5-i386
• rhel-5-x86_64

For more information about how to use that version, please refer to the documentation: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/InstallGuide

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 report page has been open.

Of course, this list can change over time, new tickets may be opened if complete bug reports are submitted on the mailing list.

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:

• debian-4-i386
• debian-4-x86_64
• rhel-5-i386
• rhel-5-x86_64

For more information about how to use that version, please refer to the documentation: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/InstallGuide

We already started to work on OSCAR-6.0.5 which will include even more bug fixes and some new functionalities.

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:

 http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/bof157

No post has been published since May, mainly because the past few months have been busy. A summary of the latest news:

• We reviewed the roadmap for oscar-6.0.4 so we can include all the patches from different contributors and also the patches we developed to fix reported issues.
• We have a new technical chair for the OSCAR-V effort ( http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/oscarv/): Anand Tikotekar. Anand has been a long term contributor to the project, and was working on the effort since a while.
• Finally but not least, we started to work on the preparation of oscar-6.0.4 which should be available early in October.

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:

• debian-4-i386
• debian-4-x86_64
• debian-5-x86_64
• fc-9-i386
• rhel-5-i386
• rhel-5-x86_64
• suse-10-i386

For details about the current status for those Linux distributions, please refer to the following page.

For more information about how to use that version, please refer to the documentation: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/InstallGuide

We already started to work on OSCAR-6.0.4 which will include even more bug fixes and some new functionalities.

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.

Late bulletin this month, mostly because it was a busy month. We typically have two hot topics this month:

• OSCAR-6.0.2 is on his way, we are working on the last remaining bugs; we should be able to release OSCAR-6.0.2 within few weeks.
• A new server is available for the hosting of binary packages repositories. The transition to that server should be transparent for all users.

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,  OSCAR'09 - Call for Papers

A new version of ODA is available. This version fixes different bugs, for more details, please read the ChangLog.

This version will be in oscar-6.0.1.

PackMan? 3.1.5 has been released. This release fixes few issues. Please see the  ChangeLog for more details.

This version will be included into oscar-6.0.1.

A new version of Selector is available. This version fixes all known bugs, please read the  ChangLog for more details.

This version will be included in oscar-6.0.1.