Rocks 6.1 Emerald Boa (CentOS 6.3)
Operating System Base
Rocks 6.1 (Emerald Boa) is based upon CentOS 6.3 with all updates available as of 27 Nov 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. New for 6.1 is the ZFS roll. This is a source roll and must be rebuilt on your system to comply with licensing.
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, Service Pack, Area51, Condor, Ganglia, HPC, Java, Python, Perl, Bio, SGE, Web Server, ZFS & OS Rolls [dvd only] ftp |
| Base Roll ftp http | |
| Service Pack 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, Service-Pack, Area51, Condor, Ganglia, HPC, Java, Perl, Python, Bio, SGE, Web Server, KVM, ZFS & OS Rolls [dvd only] ftp |
| Base Roll ftp http | |
| Service Pack 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 | |
| service-pack (required) | Service Pack Fixes | ftp http | ftp http | |
| os (required) | CentOS 6.3 w/updates pre-applied (you may also use your own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 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 | ftp http | ||
| os disk 9 (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 7.8.5) | ftp http | ftp http | |
| ganglia | Cluster monitoring system from UCB | ftp http | ftp http | |
| hpc | Rocks HPC Roll | ftp http | ftp http | |
| kvm | Support for building KVM VMs on cluster nodes | 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 (Version GE2011) |
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 | |
| zfs-linux | ZFS On Linux Roll. Build and Manage Multi Terabyte File Systems. | ftp http | ftp http | |