Qlustar Basic Edition For Linux

Qlustar is a free and commercial operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu distributions. It has been designed from the ground up to act as a next-generation, full-fledged, high-performance computing cluster OS that allows you to manager and set up clusters with as minimum efforts as possible.

Being an extremely customizable and flexible operating system, Qlustar offers controlled on-the-fly node updates, ZFS, Lustre and HA clusters that have been designed for your toughest demands, support for diskless clusters, up-to-date versions of the OpenMPI, Lustre and OFED software packages, as well as state-of-the-art cluster monitoring and management solutions.

The distribution comes with first-class support, a complete HPC (High-performance computing) cluster Linux distribution that offers over 250 up-to-date packages, including bleeding-edge software, requires no node installation or provisioning, and is real-life proven.

At the moment, Qlustar is distributed for free as an archived IMG file, which has approximately 2 GB in size when extracted. The IMG file must be written on a USB flash drive of 2GB or higher capacity in order to install the operating system on your machines.

The boot menu is the first the user sees when booting the Qlustar distribution. From there, he or she can start the installation with normal configuration or by using a TTY console. You can boot an existing operating system that is installed on the first disk drive detected by the BIOS.

As mentioned, Qlustar is both a commercial and free operating system. While the Qlustar Basic Edition is distributed for free for non-commercial and purely academic use, the Commercial (Full) Edition of Qlustar Linux costs money and can be purchased from the project’s website (see link below).