Mandrake Announces ''CLIC'' Clustering Distribution

MandrakeSoft, Bull, and INPG/INRIA announced a distribution aimed at making clustering easier, today. According to the announcement, the package will be released under the GPL, and will be developed in three stages over the next year. "The goal of the CLIC project is to provide a powerful, simple and easy to install Linux Clustering system by unifying the various stages of installation, interconnect layer set-up and parallel applications deployment." MandrakeSoft's CEO, Jacques Le Marois, commented "The CLIC project is designed to answer an important need in the intensive calculation area by providing an extremely efficient, easy to use and affordable Clustering solution." He continued, "This project should open the door to widespread adoption of high-performance systems in businesses and scientific laboratories throughout the world."

According to the release, the initial version is already available on MandrakeSoft's web site. This version has apparently been tested on a 20 unit AMD cluster, and has also been installed on a 40-node cluster at Grenoble, France's Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés.

You can find out more information at MandrakeSoft's news page, or at the CLIC project home page.