In September 2023 the primary developers of xCAT said that they moved onto other roles and could no longer work on it, asking the community if anyone would like to take over, as otherwise they planned to end-of-life the project on December 1, 2023.[2]
Install and manage many Linux cluster machines (physical or virtual) in parallel
Set up a high-performance computing software stack, including software for batch job submission, parallel libraries, and other software that is useful on a cluster
xcat, this, article, rely, excessively, sources, closely, associated, with, subject, potentially, preventing, article, from, being, verifiable, neutral, please, help, improve, replacing, them, with, more, appropriate, citations, reliable, independent, third, p. This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable independent third party sources October 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message xCAT Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit is open source distributed computing management software developed by IBM used for the deployment and administration of Linux or AIX based clusters XCATOriginal author s Egan FordDeveloper s Egan Ford Jarrod Johnson Bruce Potter Andy WrayInitial releaseOctober 31 1999 1999 10 31 Stable release2 16 5 March 8 2023 13 months ago 2023 03 08 1 Repositorygithub wbr com wbr xcat2 wbr xcat core wbr gitWritten inPerl Python BashOperating systemLinux IBM AIX WindowsPlatformCross platformSize5 MBAvailable inEnglishTypeDistributed computingLicenseEclipse Public LicenseWebsitexcat wbr orgFree and open source software portalIn September 2023 the primary developers of xCAT said that they moved onto other roles and could no longer work on it asking the community if anyone would like to take over as otherwise they planned to end of life the project on December 1 2023 2 Toolkit editxCAT can Create and manage diskless clusters Install and manage many Linux cluster machines physical or virtual in parallel Set up a high performance computing software stack including software for batch job submission parallel libraries and other software that is useful on a cluster Cloning and imaging Linux and Windows machinesxCAT has specific features designed to take advantage of IBM hardware including Remote Power Control Remote POST BIOS console Serial over LAN functions Hardware alerts and vitals provided via SNMP and email Inventory and hardware managementxCAT achieved recognition in June 2008 for having been used with the IBM Roadrunner which set a computing speed record at that time 3 4 xCAT is the default systems management tool of the IBM Intelligent Cluster solution xCAT is used by Lenovo References edit Releases xcat2 xcat core github com Retrieved 2023 10 24 Besaw Nathan A 2023 09 01 Announcement xCAT Project End Of Life planned for December 1 2023 xCAT user Mailing list Retrieved 2023 10 24 US energy department reveals world s fastest computer Wikinews 2008 06 10 Retrieved 2008 06 11 U S Department of Energy s New Supercomputer is Fastest in the World US Department of Energy 2008 06 09 Retrieved 2008 06 11 External links editxCAT Home Page xCAT s documentation on ReadTheDocs xCAT on SourceForge old releases xCAT on Github Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title XCAT amp oldid 1181669207, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
