Building a Compute Cluster

To build a compute cluster, boot your frontend with the Kernel/Boot Roll. Then supply the Core Roll, OS Roll Disk 1 and OS Roll Disk 2. From the Core Roll, be sure to select the Base, and Web Server Rolls (these rolls are required). Feel free to select any or all the optional rolls from the Core Roll (Area51, HPC, Ganglia, Java, SGE and Xen).

Building Custom Clusters

If you wish to build a custom cluster, you must choose from our a la carte selection, but make sure to download the required Base, Kernel/Boot, Web Server and all of the OS rolls.

MD5 Checksums

Please double check the MD5 checksums for all the rolls you download.

Athlon, Pentium, Xeon: i386
CDs jumbo (DVD)
Kernel/Boot Roll ftp http Boot, Core, & OS
Roll
dvd only
ftp
Core Roll ftp http
OS Roll - disk1 ftp http
OS Roll - disk2 ftp http
OS Roll - disk3 [not required] ftp http
OS Roll - disk4 [not required] ftp http
OS Roll - disk5 [not required] ftp http
OS Roll - disk6 [not required] ftp http

x86_64
CDs jumbo (DVD)
Kernel/Boot Roll ftp http Boot, Core, & OS
Roll
dvd only
ftp
Core Roll ftp http
OS Roll - disk1 ftp http
OS Roll - disk2 ftp http
OS Roll - disk3 [not required] ftp http
OS Roll - disk4 [not required] ftp http
OS Roll - disk5 [not required] ftp http
OS Roll - disk6 [not required] ftp http
OS Roll - disk7 [not required] ftp http

à la carte
roll name summary i386 x86_64
base (required) Rocks Base Roll ftp http ftp http
kernel (required) Rocks Bootable Kernel Roll ftp http ftp http
os (required) CentOS 5 (you may also use your own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 media) cd 1
cd 2
cd 3
cd 4
cd 5
cd 6
cd 7
 ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
 ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
ftp http
area51 System security related services and utilities ftp http ftp http
bio Bioinformatics utilities ftp http ftp http
condor High throughput computing tools ftp http ftp http
ganglia Cluster monitoring system from UCB ftp http ftp http
hpc
 Rocks HPC Roll ftp http ftp http
java Sun Java SDK and JVM ftp http ftp http
pvfs2 Parallel Virtual File System, Version 2 ftp http ftp http
sge Sun Grid Engine job queueing system ftp http ftp http
torque Torque+Maui job queueing system (packaged by HPC Group at University of Tromso, Norway) (tromso) (tromso)
web-server Rocks Web Server Roll ftp http ftp http
xen Support for building Xen VMs on cluster nodes ftp http ftp http