Project Kusu is the open source base that was designed from ground up for the basis of Platform Computing

Platform Computing

Platform Computing is a privately held software company that is primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility . It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is currently headquartered in Markham, Ontario with 11 branch offices across the United States, Europe and...

's Open Cluster Stack 5.

Project Kusu is built with the objective of being a simplified cluster

Cluster (computing)

A computer cluster is a group of linked computers, working together closely thus in many respects forming a single computer. The components of a cluster are commonly, but not always, connected to each other through fast local area networks...

 management, operation and deployment source kit, that supports a range of different linux distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...

, CentOS

CentOS

CentOS is a free operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux . It exists to provide a free enterprise class computing platform and strives to maintain 100% binary compatibility with its upstream distribution...

, Fedora

Fedora (operating system)

Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat...

, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 3-4 years, while...

, OpenSuSE

OpenSUSE

openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by SUSE...

, and Ubuntu Linux.

In addition, it is also a standards-based, open, and vendor certified modular and hybrid stack that transparently integrates both open source and commercial software under a single consistent cluster operating environment.

External links

• Platform Computing Website
• Kusu project home page
• Community website Getting Started with Project Kusu
• HPCCommunity.org HPC Community Discussion for various High Performance Computing related Projects