V.I (5.1) 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, 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, 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) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) (ftp) (http) |
| 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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| 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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| java | Sun Java SDK and JVM |
(ftp) (http) |
(ftp) (http) |
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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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| 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) |
