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Talk at HPC Advisory Council Workshop

This years HPC Advisory Council European Conference in Leipzig, will include a talk about Qlustar by Q-Leap Networks CEO Roland Fehrenbacher.

Qlustar: A full-fledged HPC/Storage Cluster OS Abstract

We will give an introduction to Qlustar, putting emphasis...

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Qlustar 8.0.1 released

The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the release of Qlustar 8.0.1, the first maintenance release of the 8.0.x series. It is based on Ubuntu 12.04.2 and includes many package updates (security/bug fixes) as well as an updated installer. There are a...

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Security Newsletter

We have set up a new newsletter covering security announcements. You can subscribe to it here . Please also notice the recent security advisory QSA-0220131 concerning a serious Linux kernel vulnerability that previous versions of Qlustar are vulnerable to.

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Successful update of a Lustre installation

Qlustar's Lustre/HA architecture passed an important test at the end of last year when a large existing Lustre cluster installed and maintained by Q-Leap Networks was successfully upgraded from Lustre version 1.8.7 to 2.1.3.

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A Qlustar is born

It's done! We are happy and proud to announce the first public release of Qlustar (8.0.0). Many thanks goes to all our beta-testers who helped us getting a large number of bugs squashed.

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Final beta is ready

The final beta version of Qlustar is released and available for download . There are a number of bugfixes and a couple of new features in the QluMan management GUI. Only a few package updates mainly from upstream Ubuntu....

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Beta1 available for Download

Qlustar Beta1 is released and available for download. You will have to register for the beta program before you'll be able to access the Download page. Shortly after registration, you will be contacted per e-mail with instructions about how...

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Beta1 shaping up

Qlustar Beta1 will be released at SC 2012 in Salt Lake city. We'll have USB drives ready at our booth #4461 and of course the installer image will also be available for download. This weeks highlights/milestones include: Qlustar...

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Qlustar feature freeze active

The feature freeze for our 8.0.0. (first public) release is active since last Friday. The main issues we'll work on in the coming 6 weeks until beta 1 are:

Lustre 2.1 server + Lustre 2.3 client packages. Packaging/testing most recent versions of...

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First cluster with Qlustar Precise up and running

Beginning of August, the first HPC cluster running the Ubuntu/Precise based Qlustar stack, that will be publicly released in December, has gone into production. The system is installed at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research and features 28 (mostly fat)...