Rocks 5.5 (Mamba) Menu

Operating System Base

Rocks 5.5 (Mamba) is based upon CentOS 5.8 with all updates available as of 7 May 2012.

Building a Compute Cluster

To build a bare-bones cluster, boot your frontend with the Kernel/Boot Roll. Then supply the base Roll, OS Roll Disk 1 and OS Roll Disk 2. More complete clusters also select the following rolls: Area51, HPC, Ganglia, web-server, perl, python, and SGE. Torque is an optional replacement for SGE. Condor can be used independently or in conjunction with SGE/Torque

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 and all of the OS rolls.

MD5 Checksums

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


i386 : Athlon, Pentium, Xeon
CDs jumbo (DVD)
Kernel/Boot Roll ftp http Boot, Base, Area51, Condor, Ganglia, HPC,
Java, Python, Perl, Bio, SGE, Web Server, Xen, & OS Rolls
[ dvd only ]
ftp
Base Roll ftp http
OS Roll - disk1 ftp http
OS Roll - disk2 ftp http

x86_64
CDs jumbo (DVD)
Kernel/Boot Roll ftp http Boot, Base, Area51, Condor, Ganglia, HPC,
Java, Perl, Python, Bio, SGE, Web Server, Xen, & OS Rolls
[ dvd only ]
ftp
Base Roll ftp http
OS Roll - disk1 ftp http
OS Roll - disk2 ftp http

 

Individual Rolls

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 5.8 (you may also use your own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 media)
os disk 1 (required) ftp http ftp http
os disk 2 (required) ftp http ftp http
os disk 3 (optional) ftp http ftp http
os disk 4 (optional) ftp http ftp http
os disk 5 optional ftp http ftp http
os disk 6 (optional) ftp http ftp http
os disk 7 (optional) ftp http ftp http
os disk 8 (optional) ftp http
area51 System security related services and utilities ftp http ftp http
bio Bioinformatics utilities ftp http ftp http
Condor Condor High Throughput Computing (version 7.6.6) ftp http ftp http
ganglia Cluster monitoring system from UCB ftp http ftp http
hpc
Rocks HPC Roll ftp http ftp http
perl Support for Newer Version of Perl ftp http ftp http
python
Python 2.7 and Python 3.x ftp http ftp http
sge Sun Grid Engine (Open Grid Scheduler) job queueing system ftp http ftp http
torque Torque+Maui job queueing system (packaged by HPC Group at University of Tromso, Norway) (tromso)
web-server Rocks Web Server Roll ftp http ftp http
xen Support for building Xen VMs on cluster nodes ftp http ftp http