OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resources)
OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resources) is a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using HPC clusters. It consists of a fully integrated and easy to install software bundle designed for high performance cluster computing. Everything needed to install, build, maintain, and use a Linux cluster is included in the suite, making it unnecessary to download or even install any individual software packages on your cluster. OSCAR is an open working group of the Open Cluster Group; its developers include Bald Guy Software, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, Indiana University, Intel, Louisiana Tech University, NEC HPC Europe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Revolution Linux. OSCAR also participated in the Google Summer of Code program in 2005.
OSCAR 4.2.1 features:
- Comprehensive support of a variety of Linux distributions:
- Fedora Core 2, 3, 4
- Mandriva Linux 10.0, 10.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 (clones such as CentOS and Scientific Linux are known to work) - Support for differrent hardware platforms:
- x86
- x86-64
- ia64
- New core enhancements
- Real-time monitoring of cluster deployment
- Increased TFTP scalability
- Support for Software RAID on cluster nodes
- Better SATA hardware support
- Database/XML schema re-write to speed up installation
- Hetereogeneous architecture cluster nodes support
- OS Detection Framework
- Package (RPM) repository for cluster nodes
- Full multicast support
- Network Boot Manager for cluster nodes
- Mandriva Linux 2006 support
- Sun Grid Engine support
- mpiBLAST package
- Globus package
- HA-OSCAR (High-Availability OSCAR) http://xcr.cenit.latech.edu/ha-oscar
- SSI-OSCAR (Single System Image OSCAR) http://ssi-oscar.irisa.fr/
- SSS-OSCAR (Scalable Systems Software OSCAR) http://sss-oscar.sourceforge.net/
- OSCARonDebian http://ssi-oscar.irisa.fr/oscarondebian
For more information see http://oscar.openclustergroup.org