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From: Thomas N. <nau...@or...> - 2009-02-06 20:00:38
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The 7th Annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/oscar09
osc...@or...
June 14-17, 2009
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
The 7th annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems (OSCAR ’09) will
be held June 14-17, 2009 in conjunction with the International Symposium on
High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS). The conference
is being held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
We are very excited to say that this year's symposium is more closely
aligned with HPCS. The scope of the symposium has again been extended to
more generally include topics from all areas of high performance computing
(HPC) clusters, with the focus being "Systems and management". This
includes the tools and techniques as well as experiences. We also
encourage authors to provide critical analysis of emerging topics in
clustering, to include heterogeneous or hybrid systems, reconfigurable
systems, virtualized systems, and all topics related to their use and
management. This may include high-level descriptions or low-level
capabilities -- the software and hardware aspects of HPC clusters.
Topics of interest:
-------------------
Authors are encouraged to submit papers on topics relating to, but not
limited to, the following:
* Cluster management issues, particularly those at large scale
* HPC cluster software and/or hardware case studies
* Heterogeneous/hybrid cluster management
* Cluster tools/infrastructure
* Build and configuration management techniques/tools
* Administration policy/practice (experiences)
* Cluster management software surveys
* System failure analysis
* System resilience
* Emerging hardware/systems
* Diskless systems
* Cluster and system virtualization
* System software testing and validation
Submission Guidelines:
----------------------
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the HPCS'09 conference
submission page at: http://www.hpcs2009.org/. See the HPCS'09 conference
webpages for details on abstract and paper specifications and page lengths.
Important Dates:
----------------
Abstract and/or full paper deadline: February 16, 2009
Acceptance notification: March 6, 2009
Final manuscript: May 1, 2009
_________________________________________________________________________
Thomas Naughton nau...@or...
Research Associate (865) 576-4184
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From: <geo...@fr...> - 2009-01-05 21:29:38
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OSCAR-6.0 is out! This version provides the latest modifications which will ease future developments. On the roadmap, we already plan to include many project on which students worked during the summer 2008, including a benchmarking framework, a monitoring framework, and mechanisms to deal with specific NFS configuration. This version will also be a good base for bug fixes. Remember that this version does not provide yet all the capabilities OSCAR were used to provide. For this version, we focused on the implementation of a stable OSCAR core and cleaning up; which should allow us to move forward. More capabilities will be included in future OSCAR-6.x releases. Right now, OSCAR-6.x supports only RHEL/CentOS 5 for both x86 and x86_64 in a production environment. The support of Debian systems is still experimental since we found a critical bug in opkgc (which should be fixed shortly). OSCAR-6.0 is available via our YUM/APT on-line repositories. For more details about how to use those repositories, please refer to http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/repoTesting. The next version of OSCAR-6.x will be available via the same repositories, providing an easy way to update OSCAR. Thanks, Geoffroy Vallee OSCAR Chair |
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From: Thomas N. <nau...@or...> - 2008-02-07 16:50:30
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Hello,
This is a reminder that the deadline for paper submissions to the 6th
Annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems is approaching.
The symposium has an expanded scope this year to more broadly encompass the
general area of high performance computing (HPC) clusters. Please see the
Call for Papers (listed below) for further details.
The symposium will again be co-hosted with the HPCS and is to be held
at the University of Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. This year the
conference is slightly later in the year (June 9-11, 2008) to align with
the Quebec City 400th anniversary celebrations.
Thanks,
--tjn
#####
The 6th Annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/oscar08
osc...@or...
June 9-11, 2008
Universite Laval
Quebec City, QB, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems (OSCAR '08)
will be held June 9-11, 2008 in conjunction with the 22nd Annual
International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and
Applications hosted at the Universite Laval in Quebec City, QB, Canada.
This year we are expanding the symposium's scope to encompass more
generally the area of HPC cluster computing. The emphasis is still
primarily at the system level, as opposed to HPC applications. This
includes the tools and techniques as well as experiences. We also
encourage authors to provide critical analysis of emerging topics in
clustering, to include heterogeneous or hybrid systems, reconfigurable
systems, virtualized systems, and all topics related to their use and
management. This may include high-level descriptions or low-level
capabilities -- the software and hardware aspects of HPC clusters.
Topics of interest:
-------------------
Authors are encouraged to submit papers on topics relating to, but not
limited to, the following:
* Cluster management issues, particularly those at large scale
* HPC cluster software and/or hardware case studies
* Heterogeneous/hybrid cluster management
* Cluster tools/infrastructure
* Build and configuration management techniques/tools
* Administration policy/practice (experiences)
* Cluster management software surveys
* System description/interfaces
* Fault tolerance
* System resilience
* Emerging hardware/systems
* Diskless systems
* Cluster and system virtualization
* Experience papers
* System software testing and validation
Submission Guidelines:
----------------------
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings to be published by
the IEEE. Formatting information will be available on the OSCAR'08
conference website. Papers will be limited to 7-pages in double-column
IEEE proceedings format.
Important Dates:
----------------
Submission Deadline*: February 14, 2008 (*Deadline extended!)
Acceptance Notification: February 26, 2008
Final Paper Deadline: March 21, 2008
#####
_________________________________________________________________________
Thomas Naughton nau...@or...
Research Associate (865) 576-4184
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From: Thomas N. <nau...@or...> - 2007-12-10 11:40:07
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The 6th Annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/oscar08
osc...@or...
June 9-11, 2008
Universite Laval
Quebec City, QB, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems (OSCAR '08)
will be held June 9-11, 2008 in conjunction with the 22nd Annual
International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and
Applications hosted at the Universite Laval in Quebec City, QB, Canada.
This year we are expanding the symposium's scope to encompass more
generally the area of HPC cluster computing. The emphasis is still
primarily at the system level, as opposed to HPC applications. This
includes the tools and techniques as well as experiences. We also
encourage authors to provide critical analysis of emerging topics in
clustering, to include heterogeneous or hybrid systems, reconfigurable
systems, virtualized systems, and all topics related to their use and
management. This may include high-level descriptions or low-level
capabilities -- the software and hardware aspects of HPC clusters.
Topics of interest:
-------------------
Authors are encouraged to submit papers on topics relating to, but not
limited to, the following:
* Cluster management issues, particularly those at large scale
* HPC cluster software and/or hardware case studies
* Heterogeneous/hybrid cluster management
* Cluster tools/infrastructure
* Build and configuration management techniques/tools
* Administration policy/practice (experiences)
* Cluster management software surveys
* System description/interfaces
* Fault tolerance
* System resilience
* Emerging hardware/systems
* Diskless systems
* Cluster and system virtualization
* Experience papers
* System software testing and validation
Submission Guidelines:
----------------------
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings to be published by
the IEEE. Formatting information will be available on the OSCAR'08
conference website. Papers will be limited to 7-pages in double-column
IEEE proceedings format.
Important Dates:
----------------
Submission Deadline: January 21, 2008
Acceptance Notification: February 26, 2008
Final Paper Deadline: March 21, 2008
_________________________________________________________________________
Thomas Naughton nau...@or...
Research Associate (865) 576-4184
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From: Erich F. <ef...@hp...> - 2006-11-12 17:37:18
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Dear OSCAR Users & Developers, after one year of development and just in time for SuperComputing 2006 the new release of OSCAR is ready! It is downloadable from the sourceforge site. Many thanks to all who contributed to this version with ideas, requirements, developments, alpha and beta testing, bug reports and fixes! The Release Notes for OSCAR 5.0 are attached to this email. You'll notice that OSCAR 5.0 is significantly different from OSCAR 4.2. You will not be able to update from OSCAR 4.2 to OSCAR 5.0 because the infrastructure has changed significantly. Also the way how the first steps of the installation go have changed, therefore make sure that you read at least the page http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar_5.0 before you start a new installation. Happy clustering! Cheers, Erich -- Dr. Erich Focht Solution Architecture Group, Linux R&D NEC High Performance Computing Europe |
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From: Bernard L. <bl...@bc...> - 2005-04-28 21:57:45
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The Open Cluster Group is pleased to announce the release of OSCAR 4.1.
The following are hightlights from this release:
+ Full support for Mandrakelinux (Mandriva Linux) 10.0 running on
IA32 processors.
+ A Streamlined install process for OSCAR on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3.
+ The OSCAR testing framework has been extended to make use of the
APITest tool for more thorough post installation testing.
+ RPM dependency resolution and installation are now handled for
both the server and the client image by DepMan and PackMan.
These
tools greatly reduce the effort needed by OSCAR package authors
to
install software on an OSCAR built system.
For more information about this release and links to download, please
visit our newly designed website at http://oscar.openclsutergroup.org.
The OSCAR Team would also like to take this opportunity to invite all
OSCAR users to register their cluster built using the OSCAR Toolkit.
The direct link to register your cluster is
http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/register.
Thanks for your support!
Cheers,
Bernard
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From: Bernard L. <bl...@bc...> - 2004-12-31 01:46:38
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The Open Cluster Group is pleased to announce the release of OSCAR version 4.0. Feature list of 4.0: - Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3, and Fedora Core 2 support - New RPM dependency finder helps build the server (DepMan/PackMan) - SIS 3.3.2 - Ganglia is now included in the distribution - Torque is now included as the default scheduler (OpenPBS can still be downloaded from OPD) - Multiple bug fixes and Wizard improvements This release supports both x86 and Itanium systems. Itanium support is provided by RHEL 3. This release is available for download from the OSCAR project website: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org If you have any issues with this release, please do not hesitate to email us at the oscar-users and oscar-devel mailing-lists. Both of which are available through the OSCAR webpage. Happy Holidays from the OSCAR Development Team. Cheers, Bernard |
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From: Thomas N. <nau...@or...> - 2003-10-06 13:52:06
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Rajkumar, You should read over the Installation & User Guides at http://oscar.sourceforge.net/docs.php Also, you should post questions to the oscar-users list, this oscar-announce is simply for announcements. Enjoy, --tjn _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton nau...@or... Research Associate (865) 576-4184 On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, rajkumar kalyanasundaram wrote: > hello, > > I am a novice in this field, i have to build a simple cluster from scratch for my project can anyone guide me how to proceed. > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Sign up for FREE email from Coding-Zone at http://www.coding-zone.co.uk/cpp/index.shtml > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-announce mailing list > Osc...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-announce > |
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From: rajkumar k. <roc...@co...> - 2003-10-02 18:25:15
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hello, I am a novice in this field, i have to build a simple cluster from scratch for my project can anyone guide me how to proceed. _____________________________________________________________ Sign up for FREE email from Coding-Zone at http://www.coding-zone.co.uk/cpp/index.shtml |
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From: Thomas N. <nau...@or...> - 2003-09-17 16:53:44
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Hello, A slightly updated release was posted on SF.net. http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscar/ The 2.3.1 release contains a minor documentation update and a few extraneous files were removed from the tarball. This release contains no code or package enhancements. oscar on! --tjn _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton nau...@or... Research Associate (865) 576-4184 |
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From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2003-01-17 02:34:55
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For all those interested, I will be giving a presentation "Cluster Installation with System=20 Installation Suite" at Linux World Expo 2003 in NYC, Wednesday Jan 22nd at= =20 4:30pm in the IBM Developers Den (this is on the Expo Floor). As this is= =20 part of the Expo floor, anyone with Expo only passes can attend the=20 presentation. The presentation will cover a brief overview of SIS, basics of the SIS commands, and future directions for SIS. If you are in the NY Area, or attending Linux World already, please join us. -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. _______________________________________________________________________ |
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From: Michael Chase-S. <mi...@ch...> - 2002-07-22 15:41:32
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The Open Cluster Group announces the availability of the release of
OSCAR version 1.3.
The features of 1.3 are:
* RedHat 7.1 and 7.2 support
* Mandrake 8.2 support (experimental)
* Support for the Itanium 1 platform
* Support for adding/deleting nodes
* Easy user selection of MPI implementation
* Ganglia (2.2.3) monitoring system
* Improved cluster test routine and results display
* An API for drop in package support
* Updated packages:
o C3 3.1
o Pfilter 1.663
o LAM/MPI 6.5.6
o MPICH 1.2.4
o Maui scheduler 3.0.6p9
o OpenPBS 2.2p11
o PVM 3.4.4+6
o SIS 0.90/2.1.3/1.25
This release is available for download at the OSCAR project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscar/
(note that SourceForge marks the download file as "i386", but the file
will work on Itanium platforms as well)
Please use the oscar-users mailing list for help and discussions and
report any bugs in the bug tracker. Both of these are also available at
the OSCAR project page.
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From: Sean D. <se...@da...> - 2002-07-11 14:38:11
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Hey all, After a very productive session up in Montreal, we are now announcing the creation of a Thin-OSCAR development mailing list. This list is intended to discuss the creation of Thin-OSCAR. Many may ask: "What is Thin-OSCAR?" Thin-OSCAR is an effort to create a version of OSCAR that will not require full node installation to run. We expect Thin-OSCAR to be able to handle fully diskless nodes, as well as just OSless nodes, and any other combination of on disk/off disk operation you could imagine. The goal is to make this solution fit seamlessly with the existing OSCAR solution, so users would have the choice of deploying a single image to either disk-full, diskless, or disk-capable but OSless nodes. We'll kick off the mailing list on Monday July 15th with opening comments, (I'm giving people a few days to get subscribed before we start major discussions on the list) and expect all development discussions to=20 happen over there. If you are interested in working, observing, or=20 even just being part of the peanut gallery on the Thin-OSCAR project,=20 sign up for the mailing list at: http://www.osl.iu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/thinoscar-devel If you have any further questions, feel free to email me about them. So if you are interested, go sign up for the list, and we'll see you soon on thinoscar-devel. -Sean --=20 _______________________________________________________________________ =09 Sean Dague se...@da... http://dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down. _______________________________________________________________________ |
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From: Michael Chase-S. <br...@us...> - 2002-01-04 23:00:42
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The Open Cluster Group announces the availability of the BETA release of
OSCAR version 1.2. This is a BETA release and is not intended for
inexperienced users or production environments. It is intended for
developers, testers, and early adopters.
The major feature of this release is the replacement of the installer
(LUI) with the System Installation Suite(SIS).
This BETA release is available for download at the OSCAR project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscar/
Please use the oscar-devel mailing list for help and discussions and
report any bugs in the bug tracker. Both of these are also available at
the OSCAR project page.
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From: Jeff S. <jsq...@la...> - 2001-09-18 19:37:13
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OSCAR users -- It recently came to our attention that the installation instructions for OSCAR 1.1 that were posted on the OSCAR web page were incorrect. The installation instructions that were included with the OSCAR 1.1 distribution (oscar-1.1.tgz) are correct -- only the web page was out of date. The web page has now been fixed. http://oscar.sourceforge.net/ We are sending this notice to the oscar-announce and oscar-users lists to notify all users who may have simply printed out the installation instructions from the web; please either use the instructions that were in your OSCAR 1.1 distribution, or go print a new copy from the OSCAR web pages. We appologize for the inconvenience. {+} Jeff Squyres {+} jsq...@la... {+} http://www.lam-mpi.org/ |
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From: Michael Chase-S. <br...@us...> - 2001-08-03 20:52:38
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Hello all, Oscar version 1.1 is now available for download. This release contains support for RedHat 7.1. You can download the tar file at this url: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9368 Please send any questions, problems or comments to the oscar-users list at osc...@li... Happy clustering! Michael Chase-Salerno Open Cluster Group |