Roy Dragseth of the University of Tromso announces:

The torque roll is now ready for download.

Get it from ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/rocks/torque-roll/5.0.0/

It contains the exact same versions of the software that is in pbs-roll v4.3.1:

• Torque v2.3.0 + a cpudetection patch
• Maui v3.2.6p19 + a critical fix for 64bit archs
• mpiexec v0.82

New stuff:

• compute nodes are now named compute-X-Y instead of compute-X-Y.local
• The roll now has a config file, /etc/torque-roll.conf. The only thing it currently controls is the automatic update of the node list when adding or removing nodes.

The development has now moved to using Mercurial as the SCM and I hope to establish a public repository to make it easier for people to contribute to this project. With just a few weeks of experience with Mercurial I must say that I’m impressed with the ease of use and flexibility of this piece of software.

Comments are greatly appreciated.

Clustercorp Releases the Intel Roll, PGI Roll, Cisco-OFED Roll, and Absoft Roll for Rocks 5
Tim McIntire of Clustercorp announces:

Clustercorp has released the Intel Developer Roll (for Rocks 5.0, x86_64). The Intel Developer Roll includes Intel C, C++, Fortran Compilers, Runtime Components, and Developer Tools (v10.1).

Clustercorp has released the PGI Roll (for Rocks 5.0, x86_64). The PGI Roll includes Portland Group’s C, C++, and Fortran Compilers (v7.1-6).

Clustercorp has released the Cisco-OFED Roll (for Rocks 5.0, x86_64). The Cisco-OFED Roll installs and configures OFED 1.3 InfiniBand stack and MPI layer as provided in the Cisco-OFED 1.3 RPMS and source code.

Clustercorp has released the Absoft Roll (for Rocks 5.0, x86_64). The Absoft Roll includes the Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Compiler Suite and associated libraries for x86_64 systems.

See the Clustercorp Roll Downloads Page to obtain the Rolls.