HA-OSCAR 1.0 Beta release - unleashing HA Beowulf

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. "

Comments

I wonder..

[Orgazmus]

I wonder how many posts will be constructive on this topic, and how many that will be that "imagine a..." joke.

But all hail HA-OSCAR. Powercomputing to the people. :)

Re:Imagine...

[Anonymous Coward]

Thing is, it's actually a fairly amusing comment given the story. Since comments seem to get modded up or down largely based on the first couple of moderations made to them, I'd expect to see at least one make (Score: 5, Funny) while the rest go down to (Score: -1, Redundant/Troll/Flamebait/Offtopic).

So what you've got to ask yourself is 'Am I feeling lucky?'. Well, are you, punk?

(I'm not, hence the anonymous posting...)

Re:First thing this cluster could compute:

[OECD]

100% Redundant? Sorry, guy. I wish I had mod points for you.

Of course, this IS /. and it seems oddly fitting that the moderators don't RTFP.

Re:Is this Slashdot?

[Wateshay]

At least they were honest about it, instead of trying to pretend they're some random geek who stumbled onto their site.

Re:Just what I need

[AftanGustur]

You know, this is the sort of troll I just don't get.

That's how trolls function.. Put out outrageus statements that about a third of the readers doesn't understand, a third thinks is "informative" and the last thinks is insulting..
And then maybe a few %'s see as troll.

This guy is just trolling on the fact that very few /. users will ever see this code run, let alone install a Beowulf cluster.

It's like if /. had an article on new state regulations on buying rocket fuel, and I would say how glad I was I bought my 8 tons of rocket propellant last week, just in time.. And then make up some numbers about how long it could be stored and under what conditions. I'm sure it would look "informative" to a lot of people.