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FAQ

If you are having problems with OSCAR, chances are someone else have encountered the same problem too - this FAQ is a great source of information for commonly encountered issues.

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How to get help ?

Having problems building a cluster with OSCAR? We are here to help! However, please make sure that you have done the following steps first:

  • Google the error message
  • Check the OSCAR FAQ
  • Read the OSCAR User Documentation
  • Check the oscar-users and oscar-devel mailing-lists archives. Searching through the archives usually brings up solutions to common problems.
  • For SIS (imaging) related questions, also search the sisuite-users mailing-list archives.
  • If after going through the above steps, and you did not find a solution to your problem, feel free to email us at the oscar-users mailing list. Please be verbose about your problem and provide us with the following:
    • OSCAR version (eg. 4.2)
    • Linux Distribution and version (eg. Fedora Core 2)
    • Hardware type (eg. x86, ia64, x86_64)
    • Step you are encountering problem (eg. Step 4. Image Creation Step)
    • oscarinstall.log (located in /opt/oscar)
    • typescript of installation
    • A list of third-party packages you may have downloaded from OPD and selected to be installed
    • Any other error messages

For oscarinstall.log and/or typescript, please consider using pastebin and simply pasting the referencing URL in your email.

Publications and Tutorials

Tutorials

List of OSCAR related tutorials:

  • System-level Virtualization and Management using OSCAR, In Proceeding of the 5th Annual OSCAR Symposium (OSCAR 2007), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Co-hosted with HPCS 2007, May 15, 2007.
  • Towards Highly Available, Scalable and Secure HPC Clusters with HA-OSCAR. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. August 14-17 2006. San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Non-Stop HPC and Grid-Enabled Cluster, a half day tutorial, 6th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid) 2006, Singapore, May 16-19, 2006.
  • Towards Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure HPC Clusters with HA-OSCAR, a half day tutorial, The 2006 LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2006, Norman, OK, May 2006
  • SSI-OSCAR: Single System Image - Open Source Cluster Application Resources. In Proceeding of 4th Annual OSCAR Symposium (OSCAR 2006), May 17, 2006. Note: St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Co-hosted with HPCS 2006.
  • Scalable SSI Clustering with Kerrighed, SuperComputing 2005, Seattle, Washington, November 2005.
  • Towards Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure HPC Clusters with HA-OSCAR, Cluster 2005, September 26-30, 2005, Boston, MA.
  • Building Highly Available Linux cluster with HA-OSCAR, Ottawa Linux Symposium, July 20-23, 2005, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • Developing Applications with OpenMPI on an OSCAR-Based Cluster, The 19th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS 2005), May 15-18, 2005, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
  • Towards Highly Available, Scalable, and Secure HPC Clusters with HA-OSCAR, The 6th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2004, Chapel Hill, NC, April 18-20, 2005.
  • Cluster Computing: The OSCAR Way, Cluster World Conference, April 5-8, 2004, San Jose, CA.
  • Open Source Cluster Application Resources, The 18th International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS 2004), May 2004, Winnipeg, Canada.
  • Clustering: The OSCAR Way, The 17th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS 2003), May 11, 2003, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
  • Cluster Computing the OSCAR Way, SuperComputer 2002, November 16-22, 2002, Baltimore, MD.
  • Cluster Tools, 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2002), May 21-24, 2002, Berlin, Germany.
  • Cluster Computing: The OSCAR Approach, The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2002), September 23-26, 2002, Chicago, IL.
  • Clustering with OSCAR, Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS 2002), July 23-26, 2002, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Cluster Computing, The 2001 International Conference on Computational Science – ICCS 2001, May 28-30, 2001, San Francisco, California.
  • Design and Analysis of High Performance Clusters, CLUSTER 2000 – IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, November 28 – December 1, 2000, Technische Universitat, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany.
  • Cluster Tools, Summer 2000 Workshop in High Performance Supercomputing, Joint Institute for Computational Science (JICS) – University of Tennessee, August 21 -23, 2000.

Publications

Many OSCAR papers/presentations are available at the OSCAR Symposia web site.