| Rocks是一份完整的光盘机群解决方案，它面向x86及IA64的Red Hat Linux COTS机群。组建一套Rocks
cluster并不需要任何机群方面的经历，实际上，机群架构师将能找到一条灵活的并且标题化的方式来重新设计整个软件栈，而这对大多数用户而言则适当地
隐藏了。尽管Rocks包括了在任何机群软件结构中都应指望的工具（PBS、Maui、GM支持、Ganglia等），它的安装简易性则是独一无二的。 Greg Bruno has announced the release of Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.2, a specialist, CentOS-based distribution designed to make it simple to build high-performance computer clusters: "Rocks 5.2 is released for Linux on the i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures and Solaris for the x86_64 architecture. New features: with the new JumpStart roll one can now install and configure a Linux-based Rocks front-end to 'JumpStart' Solaris-based back-end machines; can assign 'attributes' to nodes at four levels - global, appliance type, OS (e.g., Linux or SunOS), and host; Anaconda installer updated to version 11.1.2.168; isolated MySQL for the Rocks database under /opt/rocks; fix for software RAID partitioning...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download (MD5): area51.i386.disk1.iso (2,335MB), area51.x86_64.disk1.iso (2,713MB). |
