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XCAT

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Original author(s)
  
Egan Ford

Written in
  
Perl

Development status
  
Active

Developer(s)
  
Egan Ford, Jarrod Johnson, Bruce Potter, Andy Wray

Initial release
  
October 31, 1999 (1999-10-31)

Stable release
  
2.13 / December 9, 2016; 3 months ago (2016-12-09)

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. It 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 machines

    • xCAT 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 management

    • xCAT achieved recognition in June 2008 for having been used with the IBM Roadrunner, which set a computing speed record at that time.

    xCAT is the default systems management tool of the IBM Intelligent Cluster solution.

    xCAT is used by Lenovo.

    References

    XCAT Wikipedia
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