OSCAR - Open Source Cluster Application Resources

Google Summer of Code 2008 Projects Announced

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:58:31 -0400

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!

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:38:27 -0400

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

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:27:59 -0400

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

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:04:17 -0500

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

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:42:13 -0500

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.

For further reading, follow this link.

SC|07 Cluster Challenge entry runs OSCAR

Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:02:56 -0500

Paul Greidanus and the team from University of Alberta, Canada has entered the SuperComputing 07 Cluster Challenge with SGI hardware running OSCAR 5.0 and Scientific Linux 4.5.

Best of luck to him and the team!

Join us at the OSCAR BoF at SC|07

Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:40:02 -0500

This is a reminder to mark your calendars for the "OSCAR Community Meeting" at the upcoming Supercomputing conference (SC|07) in Reno, NV.

What: OSCAR Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF)
Where: SC|07, Reno, NV (A2 / A5)
When: Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Info: http://sc07.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail.php?evid=11311

See you in Reno!

100% Completion for GSOC 2007 Projects

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:01:19 -0400

The evaluations for Google Summer of Code 2007 have come in and I am happy to report that this year, for the first time, we have a 100% completion rate. Thanks to the mentors for keeping up with their projects despite their busy schedules and to the students for doing some great work and following through to the end.

The students have all posted their work to the Google Summer of Code project pages and they are available for download (links below). All the students have expressed interest in continuing to work with the OSCAR project, so download their code and send them some feedback!

Cluster Virtualization with Xen
by Kulathep Charoenpornwattana, mentored by Geoffroy R. Vallee (download)(blog)

OSCAR Bench
by James Elliott, mentored by Michael Edwards (download)(blog)

Improving HA-OSCAR
by Narate Taerat, mentored by Box Leangsuksun (download)

OSCAR LVS and HA Integration
by Ma Yuan, mentored by Michael Edwards (download)

Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR
by Amit Vyas, mentored by DongInn Kim (download)(blog)

Google Summer of Code 2007 Projects

Fri, 18 May 2007 13:35:39 -0400

The projects for Google Summer of Code 2007 have been approved and the students are working on getting involved in the OSCAR project. The projects accepted for the Google Summer of Code are as follows.

Cluster Virtualization with Xen
by Kulathep Charoenpornwattana, mentored by Geoffroy R. Vallee (blog)

OSCAR Bench
by James Elliott, mentored by Michael Edwards (blog)

Improving HA-OSCAR
by Narate Taerat, mentored by Box Leangsuksun

OSCAR LVS and HA Integration
by Ma Yuan, mentored by Michael Edwards

Globus/Condor Package for OSCAR
by Amit Vyas, mentored by DongInn Kim (blog)

Coding begins in earnest on May 28. More information about the program time line can be found here. Please give these students all the support you can, they are working hard to learn OSCAR and help make it even better.

Google Summer of Code 2007 Project Applications due March 24

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:18:21 -0400

Google is moving fast with their Google Summer of Code program. Now that organizations are finalized, students have only one week to put in applications! The deadline is Saturday (this week!) March 24th.

Mentoring Organizations Participating in Google Summer of Code 2007 Selected

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:30:05 -0400

OSCAR has been accepted as a Mentoring Organization for Google Summer of Code 2007. The current list of accepted Organizations can be found on the GSoC 2007 web site.

A list of possible project ideas is posted on the OSCAR GSoC 2007 idea page. Don't let this idea limit your creativity, we'd love to see applications with exciting new ideas for the OSCAR community!

Google Summer of Code 2007 Ideas Posted

Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:50:33 -0500

The ideas page for Google Summer of Code 2007 is posted here. GSoC organization applications are now being accepted and we're working on the application for OSCAR.

Please send comments and ideas to the oscar users mailing list.

Come join us at IRC

Sun, 4 Mar 2007 14:38:17 -0500

Need help with OSCAR? Want to contribute to the project? Just want to hang out with the developers? You can find us in #oscar-cluster (irc.freenode.net)!

Google Summer of Code 2007

Thu, 1 Mar 2007 21:37:41 -0500

OSCAR is going to apply again to be a mentoring organization for this years Google Summer of Code. As we are an optimistic bunch, we would like to hear your ideas for OSCAR related projects for the program. Just remember the project span is one summer of full time work for a person who may or may not be familiar with OSCAR before hand. Please bring up your suggestions on the oscar users mailing list.

What is OSCAR?

Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:29:00 -0500

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.