Rocks Cluster Distribution

Rocks Cluster Distribution
DeveloperNational Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, SDSC, UCSD
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateActive
Source modelOpen source
Latest release7.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata (Manzanita) / 1 December 2017; 6 years ago (1 December 2017)
Available inEnglish
Kernel typeMonolithic (Linux)
LicenseVarious
Official websitewww.rocksclusters.org

Rocks Cluster Distribution (originally NPACI Rocks) is a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. It was started by National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in 2000.[2] It was initially funded in part by an NSF grant (2000–07),[3] but was funded by the follow-up NSF grant through 2011.[4]

  1. ^ "Rocks 7.0 is Released". 1 December 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  2. ^ "About Rocks Cluster". Rocks Cluster Distribution. Archived from the original on 2012-04-13. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
  3. ^ "Award Abstract #0438741 SCI: Delivering Cyberinfrastructure: From Vision to Reality". National Science Foundation. July 1, 2005. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
  4. ^ "Award Abstract #0721623 SDCI: NMI: Improvement: The Rocks Cluster Toolkit and Extensions to Build User-Defined Cyberenvironments". August 31, 2007. Retrieved June 6, 2013.