What is OSCAR?
OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a *nix environment, to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online package repository, either on or off site.
The latest release is OSCAR 5.0, released on November 12, 2006.
Google Summer of Code 2008 Projects Announced
At the OSCAR project, we're very happy to have three projects slots allocated to us (in the end) for Google's Summer of Code 2008. We had a great crop of applications this year, and it was very tough to pick just three. While we are disappointed we didn't get more slots, we are relishing the opportunity for another great summer of coding. We hope there are no hard feelings and that all the applicants (chosen and not) will consider working on the OSCAR program outside the GSoC program.
This year's projects are as follows:
OSCAR V2M Extension - Student: Panyong Zhang - Mentor: Geoffroy Vallee
Implementation and Integration of a Universal Monitoring Framework - Student: Okoye Chuka - Mentor: Box Leangsuksun
NFS Mountpoints in OSCAR - Student: Paul Greidanus - Mentor: Geoffroy Vallee
OSCAR accepted to GSOC 2008!
OSCAR was accepted as a mentoring organization for GSOC 2008! We are very happy that Google has shown us this vote of confidence and look forward to another year of great student projects! Student applications start on Monday, March 24, 2008, so get on over to our idea page!
Google Summer of Code 2008
Google Summer of Code is upon us again! In previous years we have had some great applications and ideas submitted by new and experienced developers. This is a list of ideas for projects submitted by OSCAR developers.
OSCAR'08 Call for Papers
The organizers for the 6th annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems invite authors to submit papers to this year's symposium, which is being held in Quebec City, QB, Canada. This year's symposium has an expanded scope to encompass more generally the area of HPC cluster computing. Please read the OSCAR'08 - Call for Papers for further details.
SuperComputing's first Cluster Challenge cluster runs OSCAR
The team from the University of Alberta has won the first Cluster Challenge at SC|07. As reported previously, the cluster runs OSCAR where OSCAR's rapid deployment and suite of management/monitoring tools played a role in the outcome. Congratulations to the team.
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