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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. "
zombies
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.
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
No no, I'm not reading PRNewsWire and there isn't a BUY button on the page. This really is
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Thanks for ruining it.
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...)
...please no redneck hillbilly white trash jokes please
Weird, there was a story online, talking about a farmer not wanting to give his name to a police officer (wired-reference). I wanted to comment a already given comment and then: Boom, the story's gone. Part of the pay-preview-system? I still have the stuff on cache, so maybe the editors want to check their system for bugs... It is irritating...
4 32224&mode=thread&tid=153&tid=158&tid= 99 was the URL...
I'll post what I got in chache right here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/23/1
"You Have the Right to Remain Silent", or Not
Posted by Hemos on 16:11 23rd March, 2004
from the watching-the-outcome dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Wired asks: "Do you have to tell the police your name? Depending on how the Supreme Court rules, the answer could be the difference between arrest and freedom." in an article on their front page."
The comment already there was:
Ok.. (Score:2)
by hookedup (630460) on 16:13 23rd March, 2004 (#8644843)
This is just taking it a bit too far... I mean, if you dont want to give your name to a police officer when asked for it, you should be hiding in your basement with a tinfoil hat on.
weird...
You know, the one about caffeine and paranoia. Why did they delete it?
having a Beowulf cluster of these?!?!?! Oh wait....
you could also make it spin by giving him a blowjob.
Now there's just baiting the jokes.
Just imagine a Natalie Portman of these!
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.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
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.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
(I always bring my reasons why Anyone