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Building a Compute Cluster
To build a compute cluster, boot your frontend with the Kernel/Boot Roll. Then supply the Core Roll, the 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, and 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, Kernel/Boot, Web Server, Service Pack 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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| absoft |
Absoft Pro Fortran v10.1 Compiler Suite and associated libraries (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 |
OFED 1.3 InfiniBand stack and MPI layer (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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| hpc |
Rocks HPC Roll |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| intel |
Intel C, C++, Fortran Compilers, Runtime Components, 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 services for scientific applications (packaged by NBCR) |
(nbcr) |
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| pgi | Portland Group’s C, C++, and Fortran Compilers (packaged by ClusterCorp) |
(clustercorp) |
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| pvfs2 | Parallel Virtual File System, version 2 |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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| sge | Sun Grid Engine job queueing system |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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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 Tile Display Walls |
(ftp) (http) |
(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) |
