Nee dit is niet het befaamde serial programma wat de zelfde naam draagt maar is een afkorting van Open Source Cluster Application Resources. Dit is een verzameling van de beste methodes om een zogenaamd cluster te realiseren en wordt als volgt beschreven:
OSCAR version 2.2 is a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters. It consists of a fully integrated and easy to install software bundle designed for high performance cluster computing. Everything needed to install, build, maintain, and use a modest sized Linux cluster is included in the suite, making it unnecessary to download or even install any individual software packages on your cluster.[break]De release notes melden ons het volgende:[/break]The Open Cluster Group announces the release of OSCAR version 2.2.
Feature list of 2.2 are:Note: IA64 support was removed for this release of OSCAR due to timing problems during the release process. IA64 support is fully expected to return in the next release.
- RedHat 7.2, 7.3 and Mandrake 8.2 supported
- RedHat 7.1 and Mandrake 9.0 experimentally supported
- SIS update, including SystemImager 3.0
- MAC addresses from file import/export
- MAC address auto-assign and auto-dhcpd restart
- Various package updates
Note: The Ganglia cluster monitoring environment is available as a third party OSCAR package and can be obtained using the OSCAR Package Downloader (OPD). If the functionality provided by Ganglia (see http://ganglia.sf.net for more details) is desired then the ganglia-oscar tarball must be unpacked into the packages directory of the OSCAR installation software tree prior to running the OSCAR install cluster wizard. For additional details on installation and usage of the Ganglia monitoring toolkit as packaged for OSCAR see the ganglia/README file in the tarball.[break]OSCAR is in de volgende smaken verkrijgbaar:OSCAR 2.2
OSCAR 2.2 (met de SRPMS)
OSCAR 2.2 (alleen de SRPMS)
Wil je weten wat de SRPMS precies zijn lees dit bestand door.