Rocks Linux: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 05:09, 16 July 2015

Much more fun than a box of rocks!

Rocks is a Linux distribution based on CentOS. It's used to build high performance clusters. (HPC)

Latest release is 6.2 (sidewinder)

Key concepts,

all nodes are configured automatically from the master (that's how I'd do it) no tweaking nodes by hand! (gag)
they use RedHat kickstart
Cluster wide configuration is stored in a Rocks MySQL database

USENIX

Linux Magazine

Building Linux Clusters (O'Reilly, 2000)

How To Build A Beowulf

Data Center Handbook

Design Technologies for Green and Sustainable Computing Systems

Getting Started With Julia Programming

OpenCL Parallel Programming Development Cookbook

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-More fun than a box of rocks!
+Much more fun than a box of rocks!
 Rocks is a Linux distribution based on CentOS.
 It's used to build high performance clusters. (HPC)
-MPI parallelism
+Latest release is 6.2 (sidewinder)
-The Rocks toolkit includes
+Key concepts,
+* all nodes are configured automatically from the master (that's how I'd do it) no tweaking nodes by hand! (gag)
+* they use RedHat kickstart
+* Cluster wide configuration is stored in a Rocks MySQL database
-* PBS
+See also
-* maui
-* ganglia
+* Myrinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrinet - low overhead optical network, superceded when GBe became popular.
-* gm support
+* MPI parallelism = message passing interface
+* Maui cluster scheduler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_Cluster_Scheduler
+* Ganglia - rrdtool based monitoring and graphing
+* gm device
+* PVFS
 == Links ==
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 Philip Papadopolous [https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix03/tech/papado.pdf Breaking the Myth of Homogeneous Clusters]
+Linux Journal, June 2009: http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/building-linux-based-high-performance-compute-cluster
 Linux Magazine
 === Books ===
+Building Linux Clusters (O'Reilly, 2000)
+How To Build A Beowulf
 Data Center Handbook