XCAT

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XCAT
Original author(s) Egan Ford
Developer(s) Egan Ford, Jarrod Johnson, Bruce Potter, Andy Wray
Initial releaseOctober 31, 1999 (1999-10-31)
Stable release
2.17.0 / November 13, 2024;5 months ago (2024-11-13) [1]
Repository github.com/xcat2/xcat-core.git
Written in Perl, Python, Bash
Operating system Linux, IBM AIX, Windows
Platform Cross-platform
Size 5 MB
Available inEnglish
Type Distributed computing
License Eclipse Public License
Website xcat.org

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.

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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] A consortium of companies organized to take over the development, [3] later releasing version 2.17. [4]

Toolkit

xCAT can:

xCAT has specific features designed to take advantage of IBM hardware including:

xCAT achieved recognition in June 2008 for having been used with the IBM Roadrunner, which set a computing speed record at that time. [5] [6] xCAT is the default systems management tool of the IBM Intelligent Cluster solution.

xCAT is sometimes used by Lenovo, along with their own deployment system, Confluent.

References

  1. ↑ "Releases · xcat2/xcat-core". github.com. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Hilger, Markus (2023-12-11). "xCAT Consortium Update". xCAT-user (Mailing list). Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  4. ↑ "2.17 Release Notes". 2024-11-13.
  5. ↑ "US energy department reveals world's fastest computer". Wikinews. 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  6. ↑ "U.S. Department of Energy's New Supercomputer is Fastest in the World". US Department of Energy. 2008-06-09. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
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