Erich Focht is OSCAR core developer and works for NEC High Performance Computing Europe in Germany.

Areas of interest within the OSCAR development:

• Heterogeneous clusters with multiple architectures and distributions
• Cluster image management & deployment (systeminstaller, systemimager, systemconfigurator)
• Scalable cluster management (Yume, netbootmgr, SC3, patching&updating OSCAR, …)
• Scalable cluster monitoring (Ganglia, monitoring infrastructure et al.)
• Virtualization (primarilly with VMware)
• Diskless client nodes

At NEC HPCE Erich leads the development of OSCAR-Pro, a cluster framework built on top of OSCAR serving as software basis for NEC’s cluster customers.

Erich’s other computing related interests:

• Linux kernel hacking
• parallel filesystems
• single system image concepts
• vector computers design, programming
• hybrid (vector-scalar) architectures