The Open Cluster Group is an informal group of people dedicated to making cluster-computing practical for high performance computing. Our core working principles are:

• We believe the adoption of clusters for mainstream high performance computing is limited by the lack of well -accepted software stacks that are robust and easy to use by the general user community
  
  
• We fully embrace the Open Source model of software distribution. Anything contributed to the group must be freely distributable - preferably as source code under a well-known open source license
  
  
• We seek common solutions for cluster computing solution stacks - fragmentation of available software stacks doesn't help anyone