OSCAR Cluster

RedHat 9.0, 8.0, and Mandrake 9.0 are now
supported. SIS updates were made, including
SystemImager with Multicast capabilities. OPDer, a
GUI interface to the OSCAR Package Downloader
(OPD) was added. LAM/MPI 7.0 and C3 v4.x are now
used. The Wizard was improved, and portions of it
were redone using Qt. XML expressiveness was
enhanced for OSCAR packagers. Other various
package updates were made, including new OPD
packages for Myrinet, PVFS, and Clumon.

This release offers full IA-64 support with the inclusion of updated SIS and Kernel_Picker packages. Other bugfixes and package updates were also made. The supported distributions include RedHat 7.2 and 7.3, as well as Mandrake 8.2. There is experimental support for RedHat 7.1 and Mandrake 9.0.

A new NTP configurator was added. More information is now stored in ODA. The switcher correctly reads MPI implementations from ODA. Experimental MDK 9.0 support was added.

This release adds a remote package download tool, OSCAR Package
Downloader (OPD), a package selection facility, and various bugfixes.

This is a beta release and is not intended for inexperienced users or
production environments. It features Red Hat 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
support, Mandrake 8.2 support, IA-64 support (Itanium 1), support for
adding/deleting nodes, modules/env-switcher (3.1.6/1.0.4) dynamic and
persistent environment configuration, the Ganglia (2.2.3) monitoring
system, and commandline tools. There are also several updated
packages: C3 3.1, Pfilter 1.678, LAM/MPI 6.5.6, MPICH 1.2.4, Maui
scheduler 3.0.7p8, OpenPBS 2.3.16, PVM 3.4.4+6, and SIS
0.92/2.1.3/1.25.