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xCAT

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is xCAT?

xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) is a scalable cluster management tool for deploying and managing HPC clusters, clouds, and data centers. It supports various hardware and software platforms and provides features such as OS provisioning, system monitoring, power management, and software deployment.

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What other technologies are related to xCAT?

xCAT Competitor Technologies

Warewulf is a cluster management toolkit, making it a direct competitor to xCAT.

mentioned alongside xCAT in 28% (72) of relevant job posts

Bright Cluster Manager is a commercial cluster management software suite, directly competing with xCAT.

mentioned alongside xCAT in 26% (53) of relevant job posts

MAAS is a Metal-as-a-Service platform for bare metal provisioning, competing with xCAT's provisioning capabilities.

mentioned alongside xCAT in 5% (62) of relevant job posts

xCAT Complementary Technologies

Lustre is a parallel file system often used in HPC environments, and xCAT can be used to manage systems utilizing it.

mentioned alongside xCAT in 7% (242) of relevant job posts

Slurm is a workload manager, and xCAT can be used to provision and manage nodes in a Slurm cluster.

mentioned alongside xCAT in 4% (306) of relevant job posts

BeeGFS is a parallel file system often used in HPC environments, and xCAT can be used to manage systems utilizing it.

mentioned alongside xCAT in 14% (78) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention xCAT?

Job function

Jobs mentioning xCAT

Orgs mentioning xCAT

Engineer

0% (290) job posts

29 organizations

Systems Engineer

0% (119) job posts

45 organizations

Administrator

0% (115) job posts

57 organizations

Site Reliability Engineer

0% (29) job posts

2 organizations

Architect

0% (28) job posts

11 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning xCAT?

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Professional Services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HPE

Scientific and Technical Services

Lockheed Martin

Manufacturing

Scientific and Technical Services

The Francis Crick Institute

Scientific and Technical Services

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