Rocks 5.2 Chimichanga
Building a Compute Cluster
To build a compute cluster, boot your frontend with the Kernel/Boot Roll. Then supply the Core Roll, Service Pack 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, Service Pack, 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 |
| a 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 | ftp http | ftp http | |
| cd 2 | ftp http | ftp http | |
| cd 3 | ftp http | ftp http | |
| cd 4 | ftp http | ftp http | |
| cd 5 | ftp http | ftp http | |
| cd 6 | ftp http | ftp http | |
| cd 7 | ftp http | ||
| service-pack (required) | Service Pack | ftp http | ftp http |
| area51 | System security related services and utilities | ftp http | ftp http |
| bio | Bioinformatics utilities | 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 |
| jumpstart | Adds JumpStart support to configure Solaris client nodes | ftp http | |
| sge | Sun Grid Engine job queueing system | ftp http | ftp http |
| sun-ct | Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2 | ftp http | ftp http |
| sunstudio12u1 | Sun Studio 12 Update 1 software for Solaris & Linux platforms. C, C++, Fortran compilers, math libraries, and performance analysis tools w/ MPI support | (sun) | |
| torque | Torque+Maui job queueing system (packaged by HPC Group at University of Tromso, Norway) | (tromso) | (tromso) |
| viz | Support for building tiled-display walls | ftp http | |
| web-server | Rocks Web Server Roll | ftp http | ftp http |
| xen | Support for building Xen VMs on cluster nodes | ftp http | ftp http |