Download OSCAR 2.2

No, this is not the famous serial program that bears the same name but is an abbreviation of Open Source Cluster Application Resources. This is a collection of the best methods to realize a so-called cluster and is described as follows:

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]The release notes tell us the following:[/break]The Open Cluster Group announces the release of OSCAR version 2.2.

Feature list of 2.2 are:

• 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: 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.

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 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 available in the following flavors:

OSCAR 2.2
OSCAR 2.2 (with the SRPMS)
OSCAR 2.2 (the SRPMS only)

Do you want to know what the SRPMS are exactly? this file by.