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HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf

Posted by Hemos on from the let-it-loose dept.

ImmO writes " The eXtreme Computing Research (XCR) group at Louisiana Tech University is pleased to announce the first public release of HA-OSCAR 1.0 beta. High Availability Open Source Cluster Application Resource (HA-OSCAR) is an open source project that aims toward non-stop services in the HPC environment through a combined power of High Availability and Performance Computing solutions. Our goal is to enhance a Beowulf cluster system for mission-critical applications and downtime-sensitive HPC infrastructures. To achieve high availability, component redundancy is adopted in HA-OSCAR cluster to eliminate single point of failures, especially at the head node. HA-OSCAR also incorporates a self-healing mechanism; failure detection & recovery, automatic failover and fail-back. The 1.0 beta release supports new high-availability capabilities for Linux Beowulf clusters based on OSCAR 3.0 It provides an installation wizard GUI and a web-based administration tool that allows a user to create and configure a multi-head Beowulf cluster. A default set of monitoring services are included to ensure that critical services, hardware components and important resources are always available at the control node. "

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  1. First thing this cluster could compute: by Da+Fokka · · Score: 2, Funny

    The ratio 'imagine a...'-jokes to 'now there will be a lot of 'imagine a...''-jokes

  2. In Other News by PonyHome · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darl McBride files suit against Louisiana Tech, saying "This is one more example of how SCO innovation has been misappropriated."

  3. Re:Just imagine... by Nick+of+NSTime · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? Imagine what? Don't keep me in suspense!

  4. Buzzwords Aplenty! by DanoTime · · Score: 4, Funny

    Boy, I could make my manager's head spin just by reading the summary of that article!

    1. Re:Buzzwords Aplenty! by sg_oneill · · Score: 2, Funny

      Haha. Yeah I was kinda thinking there was a bit of a buzzword overload there..

      That said , I think they missed the bit about it using "XML compliant Strategic Webservice Failover Product placements + Redundant steak knives!!"

      Aint it scary tho, when you read articles like that, and despite having years of IT deep-fried knowledge, you'd probably have to pass it to marketing to decode it.

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  5. Re:Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given that this is slashdot, they probably deleted it because they realized it had nothing to do with Anime, Microsoft bashing, or Linux worship.

  6. Buzzword count by Electrawn · · Score: 4, Funny

    High amount of corporate buzzwords detected: self-healing, mission-critical, GUI, beowulf...

    Oh, this project actually does those things? Quaint!

    Just running the vaporware bullshit o-meter here...

  7. hold on hold on by tetrahedrassface · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can hear the terrorist governments of the world licking their chops for this one! Im just joking. Or am I?

  8. Misread title.... by BenJeremy · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought this was about Beowolf clusters in NASCAR. :o

  9. Re:sources of failure by Bombcar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've heard (no sources, google it) that Grendel is hard for beowulf clusters to deal with.....

    Maybe? I dunno. :)

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  10. Hopefully fail safe ? by LupeSpywalper · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hear a certain terrorist group's Open Source Application Management Administrator (OSAMA) is already working hard to find some loop holes in the code.