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+xCAT - eXtreme Cloud Administration Toolkit
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+xCAT is a toolkit for the deployment and administration of clusters.
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+xCAT documentation is available at: http://xcat.sourceforge.net/
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+xCAT is made available as open source software under the EPL license:
+http://www.opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php
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