OSCAR Package Maintainers
The following is a list of OSCAR packages and their respective maintainers. The maintainer’s responsibility is to update the software on a regular basis and resolve any known building/operating issues on the various architecture platforms that OSCAR supports (namely x86, x86_64 and ia64):
| OSCAR Package | Maintainer | Description |
|---|---|---|
| APITest | Thomas Naughton, Olivier Lahaye | Cluster installation test engine |
| BLCR | (obsolete) | Berkley Checkpoint Restart. |
| C3 | Thomas Naughton, Olivier Lahaye | Tool to run a command across compute nodes |
| Configurator | Olivier Lahaye | |
| Env-switcher | DongInn Kim | module to switch across different MPI stacks |
| Ganglia | Erich Focht, Olivier Lahaye | Cluster web medtrics (load, jobs, …) |
| Jobmonarch | Olivier Lahaye | Cluster web job history listing (ganglia module) |
| Kernel-picker | Olivier Lahaye | |
| LAM/MPI | Not supported anymore | Old MPI stack |
| Loghost | Olivier Lahaye | Configure head as syslog host (accept nodes logs) |
| MPICH | Erich Focht | an MPI stack |
| Maui | DongInn Kim, Olivier Lahaye | Smart job scheduler (mainly used with torque) |
| Naemon | Olivier Lahaye | Cluster health monitoring with web interface |
| NetBootMgr | Erich Focht | GUI to set node next PXE boot menu |
| Network-configurator | Olivier Lahaye | Part of OSCAR API |
| ODA | DongInn Kim | Oscar Database API |
| Open MPI | DongInn Kim | an MPI stack |
| Opium | Olivier Lahaye | SSH configuration for nodes |
| Opkgc | Olivier Lahaye | Oscar opkg distro package generator “compiler” (used by oscar-packager) |
| Orm | Olivier Lahaye | Oscar Repository Managfer |
| Oscar | Olivier Lahaye | Main OSCAR component |
| Oscar-installer | OSCAR offline install program from tarballs (obsolete) | |
| Oscar-nat | Thomas Naughto | Manage OSCAR NAT tables. (currently broken) |
| Oscar-packager | Olivier Lahaye | Main OSCAR distro package builder. |
| PVM | Thomas Naughton, Olivier Lahaye | |
| Packman | Olivier Lahaye | Package manager (abstraction layer over rpm/deb) |
| Pfilter | broken? | iptable configuration |
| Rapt | Olivier Lahaye | enhanced apt to deal with local oscar repositories (similar to yume for rpms) |
| SC3 | Erich Focht, Olivier Lahaye | enhanced C3 that can deal with subclusters. |
| SGE | Sun Grid Engine. currently broken. | |
| SIS : systemiconfigurator | Olivier Lahaye, Erich Focht | Used to configure kernel+bootloader+network on imaged nodes. Now obsolete and only kept for perle API dependancies. |
| SIS : systemimager | Olivier Lahaye | Client/Server software used to deploy nodes thru PXE. |
| SIS : systeminstaller | Olivier Lahaye, Erich Focht | Set of scripts to create and configure images for systemimager. |
| Selector | Olivier Lahaye | OSCAR components selection GUI |
| Slurm | Olivier Lahaye | Modern job queue manager and scheduler with accounting. |
| Sync_files | Olivier Lahaye | cron scripts to keep files in sync across compute nodes. |
| System-update | Olivier Lahaye | Manage OS updates across cluster |
| TORQUE | Olivier Lahaye | job batch queue manager (includes a primitive scheduler that is best replaced with Maui) |
| Yume | Yum enhanced able to deal with oscar local repos (similar to rapt for debs) |