Documentation
Users Guide
The Rocks Users Guide contains procedures and methods to install and manage your cluster.
Roll Users Guides
Community Documentation
- Linux Clustering con Rocks, una Guía Práctica. A Practical Guide to Rocks. This document is written in Spanish by Jorge Zuluaga from the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin Colombia.
- Rocks Wiki
Roll Developers Guide
The Reference Guide contains information for Roll developers. It covers the internals of a Roll’s structure, the Kickstart Graph and the configuration database.
Support
Email Discussion List
The primary mode for support for Rocks is through our email discussion list.
Office Hours
Another mode in which to get support for Rocks is through “Office Hours”. The idea is to have a set time in which members of the Rocks community can have a one-on-one live conversation with a Rocks developer.
Office Hours is held every Tuesday from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time. If that time slot is inconvenient for you, send a note to officehours@rocksclusters.org and we’ll try to set up an appointment.
To contact a Rocks developer during Office Hours, you can:
- Make an audio or video conference call with Skype to the username “rocksclusters”.
- Call the number 858.866-9422 (country code 1).
Technical Papers
411 on Scalable Password Service. Federico D Sacerdoti, Mason J. Katz, and Philip M. Papadopoulos, July 2005, IEEE High Performance Distributed Computing Conference, North Carolina.
Rolls: Modifying a Standard System Installer to Support User-Customizable Cluster Frontend Appliances. Greg Bruno, Mason J. Katz, Federico D. Sacerdoti, and Philip M. Papadopoulos, September 2004, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, San Diego.
Grid Systems Deployment & Management Using Rocks. Federico D. Sacerdoti, Sandeep Chandra, and Karan Bhatia, September 2004, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, San Diego.
Wide Area Cluster Monitoring with Ganglia. Federico D. Sacerdoti, Mason J. Katz, Matthew L. Massie, and David E. Culler, December 2003, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Hong Kong.
Configuring Large High-Performance Clusters at Lightspeed: A Case Study. Philip M. Papadopoulos, Caroline A. Papadopoulos, Mason J. Katz, William J. Link, and Greg Bruno, December 2002, Clusters and Computational Grids for Scientific Computing 2002.
Leveraging Standard Core Technologies to Programmatically Build Linux Cluster Appliances. Mason J. Katz, Philip M. Papadopoulos, and Greg Bruno, April 2002, Cluster 2002: IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing.
NPACI Rocks: Tools and Techniques for Easily Deploying Manageable Linux Clusters. Philip M. Papadopoulos, Mason J. Katz, and Greg Bruno, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Special Issue: Cluster 2001.
NPACI Rocks: Tools and Techniques for Easily Deploying Manageable Linux Clusters. Philip M. Papadopoulos, Mason J. Katz, and Greg Bruno, October 2001, Cluster 2001: IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing.
White Papers
The Rocks Avalanche Installer. A two-page white paper that provides an overview of the Rocks Avalanche Installer (introduced in Rocks v4.1, code-named “Fuji”).
