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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. There's an article on HA-OSCAR... by tcopeland · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...written by Tong Liu (the lead developer) in last month's LinuxWorld.

    You have to be a subscriber to view the HTML, but it seems that you can download the PDF version for free...

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  2. Linuxworld by ViceClown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Worth noting also, Linuxworld magazine has an article this month on HA-OSCAR which is pretty good!

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  3. 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."

  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!

  5. More about beowulf? by Krik+Johnson · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you have seen all the jokes, but you still don't know what a beowulf cluster is, then this site is for you. It has all you need to know about it.

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  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. OSCAR 3.0 Link correction by brechin · · Score: 4, Informative

    The link in the story to OSCAR 3.0 should be to http://oscar.sourceforge.net The other site is just the parent organization's info page.