It has been done. There are some scripts in WW for supporting Debian/Ubuntu mostly concerning config files I believe (different file locations/syntax and all) and of course a source generic install should work with theoretically any Linux distro, no guarantee it will work out of box without some tweaking. If you are interested you should sign up on the WW mailing list.

"Your mileage may vary"  :)

CH

From: César Ávila [mailto:clavila@gmai...]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:23 AM
To: oscar-users@list...
Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Seeking OSCAR replacement (CentOS based preferred)

What about Debian based? I don't really like redhat's way of managing things. They have a command for every task, and sometimes they cross-talk. I prefer editing plain-text configuration files.
2012/6/14 Heller, Christopher R <christopher.r.heller@inte...<mailto:christopher.r.heller@inte...>>
It really depends on what you are using it for. I've been closely following and contributing to Warewulf - http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac since early this year, and LBL really has resurrected the project. It still isn't for the faint of heart as there are quite a few manual steps needed to get a cluster up and running, but it seems that they are trying to form a community to help them identify and work through the gaps and such and help with documentation. They have a new release, version 3.2 releasing (should be within a week) that fixes all the old broken issues with Warewulf and adds some new features. Again, it isn't nearly as simple as ROCKS to install and deploy yet, but I feel that with enough help, this is possible. Don't get me wrong, I like ROCKS for simple installations (and if the hardware is older), but there are often significant delays in supporting new RHEL/CentOS versions (which makes it difficult/impossible most of the time to recommend ROCKS for folks buying new hardware), plus the fact that you are tied to those distros vs Warewulf which is a more flexible framework.

CAOS (the OS) and Perceus (from Infiscale) are also pretty much dead. Tis a shame, as I really liked Perceus, but as it was based on Warewulf components in the first place, I hope most of its functionality can be reproduced (and this time in a project, like Warewulf, that has a kinder license (BSD))

Cheers,

Christopher Heller (former OSCAR core team member representing Intel from 2006-2007)
HPC solutions engineer for the Intel Cluster Ready program

From: Sam Whiteman [mailto:whiteman@ipfw...<mailto:whiteman@ipfw...>]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:12 AM
To: oscar-users@list...<mailto:oscar-users@list...>
Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Seeking OSCAR replacement (CentOS based preferred)

I've been playing with Clusterllab's Pacemaker et. al.

>>> "Nash, Stephen" 06/14/12 9:00 AM >>>
Hello,

OK. So it appears that Oscar is very much dead. Does anyone know of any
similar solutions which are still active?

I have come across two that appear to still be ?alive?: Rocks and Warewulf.

Does anyone know of any others? A lot of the others that I have been aware
of in the past (Oscar, Perceus, Caos, etc.) all lead to dead-ends web links or bits
that are several years old.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Nash

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