Rocks 6.1.1 Sand Boa (CentOS 6.5)
Operating System Base
Rocks 6.1.1 (Sand Boa) is based upon CentOS 6.5 with all updates available as of 14 April 2014. The OS roll includes an update to
Openssl that addresses the heartbleed vulnerability. This release supports 64-bit systems only.
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, OS Roll Disk 2, and OS Disk 3. 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 6.1.1 is the Fingerprint roll which can help in moving compiled applications to/from a Rocks cluster .
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.
Downloads
All ISOsm DVDs and MD5 checksums are available for downloads from here.
| x86_64 |   |
|---|---|
| CDs | jumbo (DVD) |
| Kernel/Boot Roll |
Boot, Base, Area51, HTCondor, Fingerprint, Ganglia, HPC, Java, Perl, Python, Bio, SGE, Web Server, KVM, ZFS & OS Rolls [ dvd only ] |
| Base Roll | |
| OS Roll - disk1 | |
| OS Roll - disk2 | |
| OS Roll - disk3 |
Individual Rolls
| roll name | summary x86_64 | |
|---|---|---|
| base (required) | Rocks Base Roll | |
| kernel (required) | Rocks Bootable Kernel Roll | |
| os (required) | CentOS 6.5 w/updates pre-applied (you may also use your own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 media) | |
| os disk 1 (required) | ||
| os disk 2 (required) | ||
| os disk 3 (required) | ||
| os disk 4 (optional) | ||
| os disk 5 optional | ||
| os disk 6 (optional) | ||
| os disk 7 (optional) | ||
| os disk 8 (optional) | ||
| os disk 9 (optional) | ||
| area51 | System security related services and utilities | |
| bio | Bioinformatics utilities | |
| Fingerprint | Fingerprint application dependencies | |
| HTCondor | HTCondor High Throughput Computing (version 8.0.6) | |
| ganglia | Cluster monitoring system from UCB | |
| hpc |
Rocks HPC Roll | |
| kvm | Support for building KVM VMs on cluster nodes | |
| perl | Support for Newer Version of Perl | |
| python |
Python 2.7 and Python 3.x | |
| sge | Sun Grid Engine (Open Grid Scheduler) job queueing system (Version GE2011) | |
| torque | Torque+Maui job queueing system (packaged by HPC Group at University of Tromso, Norway) | |
| web-server | Rocks Web Server Roll | |
| zfs-linux | ZFS On Linux Roll. Build and Manage Multi Terabyte File Systems. | |