“ORNL, NCSA team with six industry leaders to create
‘supercomputer on a CD’.”
“Software that will make configuring and maintaining a Linux
cluster like installing commercial software from a CD will be
demonstrated by Intel at next week’s Linux World Conference in New
York. In addition, IBM will discuss this software, called Open
Source Cluster Applications Resources (OSCAR) in a presentation at
IBM’s Linux World booth.”
“OSCAR is ready for distribution to experienced cluster
computing professionals as a developer’s release. A full release of
OSCAR for the wider cluster computing community will be ready in
the near future.”
“OSCAR is being developed by the Open Cluster Group
(http://www.OpenClusterGroup.org), a collaboration among major
research centers and technology companies led by Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL), the University of Illinois’ National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), IBM and Intel. Other
collaborators in the Open Cluster Group are Dell, SGI,
MSC.Software, and Veridian. Members of NCSA’s cluster development
team will assist with the demo at Linux World. Dell will provide
the equipment for the demo.”