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We've decided to push the main branches of the OAR repository on github. The objective is to ease the way to make patches for people not in the OAR team.

So, you'll find the oar github repository here :

https://github.com/oar-team/oar

For more information, please ask on the mailing lists.

-- The OAR Team

Posted Monday 05 November 2012

Since version 2.5.2, OAR is in the Debian repositories and OAR will be a part of the Debian/Wheezy distribution.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/oar.html

So OAR benefits now from the Debian repositories. It is currently in the unstable repository, and will probably move in the testing repository during the next week. As soon as it is in the testing repository, there will be a backport for squeeze.

deb http://<debian_mirror>/debian unstable main
deb http://<debian_mirror>/debian testing main
deb http://<debian_mirror>/debian-backports squeeze-backports main

Our own Debian repositories (http://oar-ftp.imag.fr/oar/*/debian) will be kept only for development purposes and for maintaining the 2.4 branches. The 2.5 stable branches will be removed in the next months.

For more information, please ask on the mailing lists.

-- The OAR Team

Posted Friday 01 June 2012

OAR 2.5.2 has been pushed into the stable repositories.

Installation instructions | Upgrading issues | Repository list | Changelog.

This release contains mainly bugfixes (see changelog for the complete list) and some performance improvements. You need to update the sql schema by executing oar-database --setup

version 2.5.2:
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  - Bugfix: /var/lib/oar/.bash_oar was empty due to an error in the common
    setup script.
  - Bugfix: the PINGCHECKER_COMMAND in oar.conf depends now on %%OARDIR%%.
  - Bug #13939: the job_resource_manager.pl and job_resource_manager_cgroups.pl
                now deletes the user files in /tmp, /var/tmp and /dev/shm at
                the end of the jobs.
  - Bugfix: in oardodo.c, the preprocessed variables was not defined correclty.
  - Finaud: fix race condition when there was a PINGCHECKER error jsut before
    another problem. The node became Alive again when the PINGCHECKER said OK
    BUT there was another error to resolve.
  - Bugfix: The feature CHECK_NODES_WITH_RUNNING_JOB=yes never worked before.
  - Speedup monika (X5).
  - Monika: Add the conf max_cores_per_line to have several lines if the number
    of cores are too big.
  - Minor changes into API:
      - added cmd_output into POST /jobs.
  - API: Added GET /select_all?query=<query> (read only mode).
  - Add the field "array_index" into the jobs table. So that resubmit a job
    from an array will have the right array_index anvironment variable.
  - oarstat: order the output by job_id.
  - Speedup oarnodes.
  - Fix a spelling error in the oaradmin manpage.
  - Bugfix #14122 : the oar-node init.d script wasn't executing
    start_oar_node/stop_oar_node during the 'restart' action.
  - Allow the dash  character into the --notify "exec:..." oarsub option.
  - Remove some old stuffs from the tarball:
      - visualization_interfaces/{tgoar,accounting,poar};
      - scheduler/moldable;
      - pbs-oar-lib.
  - Fix some licence issues.
Posted Wednesday 23 May 2012

The first stable release of the 2.5.x series is out.

Installation instructions | Upgrading issues | Repository list | Changelog.

A lot of work has been done between the branches 2.4.x and 2.5.x. Among them:

A lot of improvements and optimization of the RestFull API

OAR 2.5 provides a Restfull API to submit/query/administrate the batch scheduler. The API now implements pagination and uses FastCGI for better performance.

A better installation procedure

The source code has been reorganized and the installation scripts have been improved to ease both the installation process and the packaging maintenance. OAR can be now installed on the Debian/Redhat like operating systems with the same procedure. And supporting another system should be easy (provided that the system fullfill the needed dependencies).

Posted Friday 20 January 2012

The new stable release 2.4.7 for OAR has been pushed into the stable repositories. This is a minor version that fixes a bug in the checkpoint feature. Please look at the 2.4.x changelog for more information about the modifications.

The 2.4.x stable repositories can be found on the repository page.

Posted Wednesday 11 January 2012

The OAR Version 2.4.5 has just been released. This is a minor version that fixes some bugs. Please look at the 2.4.x changelog for more information about the modifications.

The 2.4.x stable repositories can be found on the repository page.

Posted Wednesday 28 September 2011

The OAR Team has designed a new website. The old one is no more accessible. If something is missing, please contact us.

-- The OAR Team.

Posted Monday 27 June 2011

Two engineers arrived in the sphere of OAR since January 2011. They will work on:

  • optimizing the performance of OAR and evaluating its scalability;
  • working on the ComputeMode project.
Posted Tuesday 01 March 2011

The OAR Team is very proud of beeing selected again to the Google Summer of Code program.

Posted Tuesday 23 March 2010
Posted Monday 01 March 2010