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University of Tromso Releases the Torque Roll for Rocks 5.3
0Roy Dragseth of the University of Tromso announces:
The torque roll for Rocks 5.3.0 is now ready for download. Get the bits at:
ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/rocks/torque-roll/5.3.0
Most important software included:
- Torque v2.4.6
- Maui v3.2.6p21
- mpiexec v0.83
New features
- Node properties in Torque are now supported through setting node attributes using the rocks command line.
- New queue web display not relying on Ganglia (just a simple cgi-bin wrapper around the maui commands.)
- OpenMPI – Torque integration without recompiling OpenMPI with tm interface.
- New documentation.
See the roll docs for details.
Installation
The Rocks way of installing the roll is as usual to reinstall your frontend and compute nodes, but you can also use the chain of commands to install a new roll on an existing frontend (with or without a previous version of the roll):
# rocks add roll /path/to/torque/roll.iso
# rocks enable roll torque
# rocks create distro
# rocks run roll torque | sh
# reboot
After the the frontend comes back up you should do the following to populate the node list:
# rocks sync config
then kickstart all your nodes
# tentakel /boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart
After the nodes are reinstalled they should automatically pop up in the queueing system.
Source Code
The source code of the roll can be accessed from a public mercurial repository: http://devsrc.cc.uit.no/hg/torque/
Rocks-A-Palooza V Registration is Open
0June 2-3 2010
Rocks-A-Palooza V (Rocks All Hands Meeting)
Atkinson Hall (CalIT2), UCSD
La Jolla, CA
The fifth annual Rocks users meeting will be held on June 2nd and 3rd 2010 at UCSD in sunny La Jolla, California. The agenda, registration, and hotel details can be found .
This is event is free for all participants from non-profit organizations, but . Commercial participation is welcome, but as this meeting is supported by the NSF, attendees from for-profit organizations are required to pay a registration fee of 0 per person.
Rocks v5.4 Beta is released for x86_64
0Rocks v5.4 Beta is released for x86_64 CPU architecture.
Downloads
Features
For an overview of some of the new features in Rocks 5.4, take a look at this presentation: .
Rocks v5.4 (Maverick) is released for Linux on the i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures
0Rocks v5.4 (Maverick) is released for Linux on the i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures.
Downloads
ISO images for Linux on the i386 and x86_64 architectures can be found .
Release Notes
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University of Tromso Releases the Torque Roll for Rocks 5.4
0Roy Dragseth of the University of Tromso announces:
The torque roll for Rocks 5.4.0 is now ready for download. Get the bits at:
ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/linux/rocks/torque-roll/5.4.0
Most important software included:
- Torque v2.4.11
- Maui v3.2.6p21
- mpiexec v0.84
Maintenance Release
This version of the torque roll is a maintenance release. It contains several bug fixes as well as refreshed software.
Installation
The Rocks way of installing the roll is as usual to reinstall your frontend and compute nodes, but you can also use the chain of commands to install a new roll on an existing frontend (with or without a previous version of the roll):
# rocks add roll /path/to/torque/roll.iso
# rocks enable roll torque
# rocks create distro
# rocks run roll torque | sh
# reboot
After the the frontend comes back up you should do the following to populate the node list:
# rocks sync config
then kickstart all your nodes
# rocks run host /boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart
After the nodes are reinstalled they should automatically pop up in the queueing system.
Source Code
The source code of the roll can be accessed from a public mercurial repository: http://devsrc.cc.uit.no/hg/torque/
Service Pack Roll v5.4.1 for Rocks v5.4 is Released
0The Service Pack Roll v5.4.1 for i386 and x86_64 architectures is released.
This roll includes the following .
ISO images for the Service Pack Roll can be found on the page.
Installation instructions can be found .
PVFS2 Roll for Rocks v5.4 is Released
0The PVFS2 Roll for i386 and x86_64 architectures is released for Rocks 5.4 (Maverick).
This roll contains executables and configuration utilities to deploy a PVFS2 file system on a Rocks cluster.
The roll includes PVFS2 v2.8.2.
ISO images for the PVFS2 Roll can be found on the page.
Installation and configuration instructions can be found .
Service Pack Roll v5.4.2 for Rocks v5.4 is Released
0The Service Pack Roll v5.4.2 for i386 and x86_64 architectures is released.
This roll includes all the fixes from the previous Service Pack (v5.4.1) as well as some new fixes. A description of all the fixes can be found .
ISO images for the Service Pack Roll can be found on the page.
Installation instructions can be found .
Viz Roll x86_64 for Rocks v5.4 is Released
0The Viz Roll v5.4 for x86_64 architectures is released.
This roll include support for Chromium and instruction on running
Google Earth.
ISO images for Viz Roll can be found on the page.
Installation instructions can be found .
NBCR Releases APBS Roll for Rocks 5.4
0The National Biomedical Computation Resource at University of California, San Diego is pleased to announce the availability of APBS Roll package for Rocks clusters version 5.4 for the x86_64 architecture.
APBS (Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver) is a scalable Poisson-Boltzmann equation solver used to study electrostatic properties of small to nanoscale biomolecular systems. The APBS Roll simplifies APBS deployment and integration on Rocks clusters. More information about APBS can be found at or at the .
This APBS Roll contains the latest APBS version 1.3 and PDB2PQR package version 1.7.
The APBS Roll can be downloaded from the and the Roll documentation including installation and usage information is available .
Questions or comments may be directed to Robert Konecny < rok@ucsd.edu>.
