News

May 15, 2009: xCAT 2.2.1 is released, with support for CentOS 5.3, and more bug fixes!

April 16,2009: xCAT 2.2 is released, with support for SLES 11, KVM, and AIX 5.3S & 6.1F!

January, 2009: xCAT2.1.1 is released, with support for RHEL 5.3 & SLES 10 SP2

Oct 31, 2008: xCAT2.1 is released, with support for AIX, Windows Server 2008, & Xen!

Sept 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2 can now be purchased!

June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into fastest supercomputer on the planet

May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux is now officially released!

xCAT is DataCenter Control

Provision Centos5.X, SLES[10-11], RHEL5.X, Fedora[9-11], AIX, Windows Server 2008
Install to Hard Disk, Install Stateless (Diskless), Install to iSCSI (no special hardware required), Virtual Machines (VMWare, KVM, & Xen)
Scale to 1,000s of nodes with distributed architecture: xCAT provisions the fastest computer on earth.
Built in Automagic discovery - no need to power on one machine at a time to discover!
Integrated Lights-out management, remote console, and distributed shell support
Flexible, Fast, Extensible, Agile.
Open Source community support with support contract available
Complete and ideal management for HPC clusters, RenderFarms, Grids, WebFarms, Online Gaming Infrastructure, Clouds, Datacenters, and whatever tomorrow's buzzwords may be.

"They can have my xCAT when they pry it from my cold dead hands"
--Douglas Meyers, IBM Special Events

Documentation

Documents xCAT has tons of documentation. Perhaps the best place to begin with xCAT is to look at the Top document
xCAT HowTos This section of the wiki contains step by step instructions for performing various tasks, like KVM, and setting up Infiniband in stateless images, etc.
There is also a quick start guide here.
Man Pages
xCAT DB Table Descriptions
Migrating from CSM
xCAT 1.3 went end of life 10/31/08. Upgrade to xCAT 2 and you'll be glad you did

Official support for xCAT 2 can now be purchased! Also see the announcement letter.
The xCAT public mailing list is monitored by most xCAT users. An archive of the list is available. (For bugs, make sure you also open a Tracker bug.)
IRC: Some xCAT people hang out at #xcat channel on irc.freenode.net
Open defect reports using the xCAT 2 Bug Tracker
Submit feature requests using the xCAT 2 Feature Tracker
Open a request for technical support

xCAT 2.x is open source software. You are welcome to join the xCAT community to make it better.

To contribute ideas, please join the xCAT mailing list.
To contribute code, please create a SourceFourge account, and send your id to xcat-user@lists.xcat.org.
Make sure you follow the contribution guidelines.
The source code is in the SVN repository and the root is here.