The OSCAR project is participating again this year in GSoC and we would love to see more great applications. Large quantities of hardware are not necessary to apply, there are many great Virtual Machine platforms out there which are free and enable cluster development to be performed on almost any platform.
http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/GSoC2008 What is OSCAR? OSCAR allows users, regardless of their experience level with a *nix environment, to install a Beowulf type high performance computing cluster. It also contains everything needed to administer and program this type of HPC cluster. OSCAR's flexible package management system has a rich set of pre-packaged applications and utilities which means you can get up and running without laboriously installing and configuring complex cluster administration and communication packages. It also lets administrators create customized packages for any kind of distributed application or utility, and to distribute those packages from an online package repository, either on or off site. This lowers the barrier of entry into the field of high performance computing and allows users to spend more time dealing with their application of interest and less time administering their machines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users