OMF

We are proud to announce the release of OMF version 5.3!

This release includes many new features, such as a new event driven mechanism, support for disconnected experiments, support for experiments on PlanetLab, etc... Also we fixed many bugs, which are described in our ticket-tracking system. And finally, we did some major code refactoring, which facilitate future OMF extensions and support for federation and virtualisation (e.g. all OMF communications are now using the Publish/Subscribe scheme, new naming scheme for resources, etc...).

The full list of changes in 5.3 is available on our 5.3 Changelog page.

OMF 5.3 includes the following software:

• OMF Experiment Controller 5.3
• OMF Aggregate Manager 5.3
• OMF Resource Controller 5.3
• PXE image build system with latest busybox and kernel 2.6.34
• preconfigured Ubuntu 10.4 baseline image for PC-based resources (kernel 2.6.32)

Packages for Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid x86/amd64 and Fedora Core are available in our repository. For installation instructions please see our comprehensive Installation Guide for 5.3.

The source code for this release can be accessed from our SVN repository at: http://svn.mytestbed.net/OMF/branches/release-5.3

OMF users can browse our detailed User Guide Documentation for information on how to use OMF, or read or FAQs, or post questions to the OMF user mailing list.

Important note: While OMF 5.3 is now released, most of the user and installation documentation on our wiki are still describing OMF 5.2. We are currently focusing exclusively on updating all these documents to describe OMF 5.3. The updated set of OMF 5.3 documentation will be available incrementally over the next 2 weeks.

Today we are releasing our latest and greatest version 5.2 of OMF. More than 50 bugs have been fixed and many new features were implemented since our last release. All communication between the experiment controller and the resource controllers now takes place using XMPP, which is a major step towards federation of OMF. For a full list of changes please see Changelog_52.

OMF 5.2 includes the following software:

• OMF Experiment Controller 5.2
• OMF Aggregate Manager 5.2
• OMF Resource Controller 5.2
• PXE image build system with latest busybox and kernel 2.6.32
• preconfigured Ubuntu 9.10 baseline image for the nodes

Packages for Ubuntu 9.10 x86/amd64 are available in our repository. For installation instructions please see our extensive Installation_Guide_52.

To access the source code release from our SVN, please run:

svn co http://svn.mytestbed.net/OMF/branches/release-5.2

For OMF support please consult FAQ_and_Support and make sure you have a look at our detailed Documentation.

Two new mailing lists for OMF and OML users have been created:

https://lists.nicta.com.au/wws/subscribe/omf-user
https://lists.nicta.com.au/wws/subscribe/oml-user

Please subscribe and post your questions on these lists, and the developers will assist you. The subscription site also provides an archive for users to check if their questions have previously been answered.

Or simply email your question to omf-user@lists.nicta.com.au or oml-user@lists.nicta.com.au respectively.

We are pleased to announce the release of OML2 1.0:

You can find the source code in the OML repository:

http://omf.mytestbed.net/repositories/show/oml

For any questions concerning this new version of OML2, please first refer to the user guide. Do not hesitate to post comment in the OML2 forum.

We are excited to announce the release of OMF 1.2

This release includes the following software:

- Node Handler v4.4
- Node Agent v4.4
- Grid Services v2.2

It is available in our Ubuntu/Debian repository. Just append the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb http://pkg.mytestbed.net/ubuntu hardy/

and run the command apt-get update.

You should now be able to install the packages nodehandler4, nodeagent4 and gridservices2 using the command apt-get install.

Alternatively, you can also directly download the Ubuntu packages here:

http://pkg.mytestbed.net/ubuntu/hardy/

Some interim installation document are available here. We are still working on these documents, so please do not hesitate to contact us if something is not clear, missing, or misleading there. You may also want to review the Glossary of OMF's entities.