OSCAR installs on top of a standard installation of a supported Linux distribution on a cluster's head node.
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CHAOS creates a basic node in an openMosix cluster, and is typically not deployed on its own; cluster builders will use feature rich Linux distributions ( such as Quantian or ClusterKnoppix ) as a " head node " in a cluster to provide their application software, while the CHAOS distribution runs on " drone nodes " to provide " dumb power " to the cluster.