| current | OS/Distribution support | Cap 4.0 is distrubited by a RPM for RHEL4
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| current | OS/Distribution support | Cap 4.0 can be utilzied by a tar ball for any Linux type system
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| future | OS/Distribution support | Cap 4.0 will be distrubited via a debian package
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| current | Hardware Control | Remote Power control (on/off/status) via iLO or IPMI
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| current | Hardware Control | Remote OS console via iLO, IPMI or various terminal servers
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| current | Boot Control | pxe network, diskless, or local
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| current | Automated installation | Parallel install via scripted RedHat? kickstart on ia32 and ia64
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| current | Automated installation | Network installation with supported PXE NICs or via etherboot on supported NICs without PXE
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| current | Administration Utilities | Parallel distrubibted remote shell, rsync, and scp
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| current | Configuration Administrator | Speconf, intelligently synchronize a speconf directory
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| current | Usability | Command line utilities for all cluster management functions
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| current | Usability | Single operations can be applied in parallel to multiple nodes with a very flexible and customizable group/range functionality
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| current | Flexibility | Support for various user defined node types
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| Status | Feature Type | Feature
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| current | OS/Distribution support | RedHat? 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0-beta on management and compute / storage / interactive | head nodes
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| current | OS/Distribution support | RedHat? for ia64 on management and compute / storage / interactive | head nodes
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| current | OS/Distribution support | Any OS on compute nodes via OS agnostic imaging support
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| current | Hardware Control | Remote Power control (on/off/state) via IBM Management Processor Network and/or APC Master Switch
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| current | Hardware Control | Remote software reset (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
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| current | Hardware Control | Remote Network BIOS/firmware update and configuration on a lot of IBM hardware
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| current | Hardware Control | Remote OS console via pluggable support for a number of different terminal servers
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| current | Hardware Control | Remote POST/BIOS console via IBM Management Processor Network and via terminal servers in upcoming IBM BIOS releases.
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| current | Boot Control | Ability to remotely change boot type (network or local disk) with syslinux
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| current | Automated installation | Parallel install via scripted RedHat? kickstart on ia32 and ia64
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| current | Automated installation | Parallel install via imaging with other Linux distributions, Widows, or other OSes
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| current | Automated installation | Network installation with supported PXE NICs or via etherboot on supported NICs without PXE
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| current | Monitoring | Hardware alerts and email notification with IBM's Management Processor Network and SNMP alerts
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| current | Monitoring | Remote vitals (fan speed/temp/etc...) with IBM's Management Processor Network
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| future | Monitoring | Configurable and extensible monitoring support via mon
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| future | Monitoring | Graphical look at cluster status via ganglia.
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| current | Monitoring | Remote hardware event logs with IBM's Management Processor Network
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| current | Administration Utilities | Parallel remote shell, ping, rsync, and copy
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| current | Administration Utilities | Remote hardware inventory with IBM's Management Processor Network
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| current | Software Stack | PBS and Maui schedulers - Build scripts, documentation, automated setup, extra related utilities, and deep integration
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| current | Software Stack | Myrinet - automated setup and installation
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| current | Software Stack | MPI - Build scripts, documentation, automated setup for MPICH, MPICH-GM, and LAM
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| future | Software Stack | SGridEngine scheduler supprt
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| current | Usability | Command line utilities for all cluster management functions
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| current | Usability | Single operations can be applied in parallel to multiple nodes with a very flexible and customizable group/range functionality
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| current | Flexibility | Support for various user defined node types
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