5.2 (Chimichanga) Menu
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 |
   
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| CDs | jumbo (DVD) |
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| Kernel/Boot Roll (ftp) (http) |
Boot, Core, & OS Roll dvd only (ftp) |
| Core Roll (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk1 (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk2 (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk3 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk4 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk5 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk6 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| x86_64 |
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| CDs | jumbo (DVD) |
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| Kernel/Boot Roll (ftp) (http) |
Boot, Core, & OS Roll dvd only (ftp) |
| Core Roll (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk1 (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk2 (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk3 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk4 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk5 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk6 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| OS Roll - disk7 [not required] (ftp) (http) |
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| à la carte |
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| roll name | summary | i386 | x86_64 | |
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| base (required) |
Rocks Base Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| kernel (required) |
Rocks Bootable Kernel Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| os (required) |
CentOS 5 (you may also use your own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 media) |
cd 1 cd 2 cd 3 cd 4 cd 5 cd 6 cd 7 |
(ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) |
| service-pack (required) |
Service Pack |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| area51 | System security related services and utilities |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| bio | Bioinformatics utilities |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| ganglia | Cluster monitoring system from UCB |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| hpc |
Rocks HPC Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| java | Sun Java SDK and JVM |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| jumpstart | Adds JumpStart support to configure Solaris client nodes |
(ftp) (http) |
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| sge | Sun Grid Engine job queueing system |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| sun-ct | Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2 |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| 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) |
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| torque | Torque+Maui job queueing system (packaged by HPC Group at University of Tromso, Norway) |
(tromso) |
(tromso) |
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| viz | Support for building tiled-display walls |
(ftp) (http) |
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| web-server | Rocks Web Server Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| xen | Support for building Xen VMs on cluster nodes |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
