Welcome to the 6^th Annual Symposium on OSCAR and HPC Cluster Systems. This year's symposium is again co-hosted with the International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications (HPCS2008). The conference is being held at the University of Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. This year the conference is being held slightly later in the year (June 9-11, 2008) to align with the Quebec City 400th anniversary celebrations.

The symposium has an expanded scope this year to more broadly encompass the general area of high performance computing (HPC) clusters. The emphasis is still primarily at the systems level, as opposed to HPC applications. Please see the Call for Papers for further details.

OSCAR is a widely used cluster installation and management toolkit. The software is a snapshot of best known methods for building, programming and using clusters. The project is an open effort among industry, academic and research groups to help simplify the setup and management of computing clusters. Further information is available at the OSCAR web site, http://oscar.openclustergroup.org.

Conference Information

• HPCS Program - Session 2: OSCAR
  
  
• Final manuscript submit information
• HPCS Conference Registration (OSCAR attendees should register for HPCS'08)
• Paper specifications:
  • IEEE-CS Formatting Instructions (Use 8.5" x 11", Two-column format, 7 pages max)
  • IEEE-CS LaTeX Templates
  • Submit papers (PDF) to: oscar-symposium@ornl.gov
• Call for Papers  [PDF] [TXT]
• Program Committee
• Organizing Committee
• Contact: oscar-symposium@ornl.gov
  

• OSCAR 2007 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
• OSCAR 2006 - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
• OSCAR 2005 - Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• OSCAR 2004 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• OSCAR 2003 - Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada