Mars Hill (4.3) Menu
Building a Compute Cluster
To build a compute cluster, boot your frontend with the Kernel/Boot Roll. Then supply the Core Roll, OS Roll Disk 1 and OS Roll Disk 2. From the Core Roll, be sure to select the Base, HPC and Web Server Rolls (these rolls are required). Feel free to select any or all the optional rolls from the Core Roll (Area51, Ganglia, Grid, Java and/or SGE).
Building Custom Clusters
If you wish to build a custom cluster, you must choose from our à la carte selection, but make sure to download the required Base, HPC, Kernel/Boot, Web Server and all five 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 & 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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| x86_64 |
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| CDs | jumbo (DVD) |
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| Kernel/Boot Roll (ftp) (http) |
Boot & 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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| 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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| hpc (required) |
Rocks HPC Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| kernel (required) |
Rocks Bootable Kernel Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| web-server (required) |
Rocks Web Server Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| os (required) |
CentOS 4 update 5 with all released updates pre-applied as of July 4, 2007. You may replace the OS Roll with the complete media set from any Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 compatible distribution, including the commercial version. |
cd 1 cd 2 cd 3 cd 4 cd 5 |
(ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) |
| absoft | Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Compiler Suite (packaged by Clustercorp) |
(clustercorp) |
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| amd | GNU compilers optimized for AMD Barcelona CPUs (packaged by Clustercorp) |
(clustercorp) |
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| apbs | Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver (packaged by NBCR) |
(nbcr) |
(nbcr) |
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| area51 | System security related services and utilites |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| bio | Bioinformatics utilities |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| cisco-ofed | Cisco OFED (packaged by Clustercorp) |
(clustercorp) |
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| condor | High throughput computing tools |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| ganglia | Cluster monitoring system from UCB |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| grid | Globus 4.0.4 (GT4) |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| intel | Intel compiler and developer tools (packaged by Clustercorp) |
(clustercorp) |
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| java | Sun Java SDK and JVM |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| opal | Web service wrappers for scientific applications (packaged by NBCR) |
(nbcr) |
(nbcr) |
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| pbs | Torque/Maui job queueing system (packaged by University of Tromso) |
(tromso) |
(tromso) |
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| pgi | The PGI compiler (packaged by Clustercorp) |
(clustercorp) |
(clustercorp) |
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| pvfs2 | PVFS2 File System |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| sge | Sun Grid Engine job queueing system |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| voltaire-ib | Infiniband support for Voltaire IB hardware |
(voltaire) |
