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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. 3d desktop by iamthemoog · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I assume all that horsepower is needed to run a 3d desktop in Java...

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  2. someone has to say it... by dcordeiro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    imagine a beowulf..

    wait a sec, someone has really imagined it !!!

  3. Imagine... by dustin_royer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...a beowulf cluster of, oh wait, nevermind.