Distributed Ant: A System to Support Application Deployment in the Grid
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Realistic Modeling and Svnthesis of Resources for Computational Grids
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Configuring Large High-Performance Clusters at Lightspeed: A Case Study
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
How to build a fast and reliable 1024 node cluster with only one disk
The Journal of Supercomputing
Queue - DNS
System management software for virtual environments
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computing frontiers
An integrated user environment for scientific cluster computing
ALS '01 Proceedings of the 5th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 5
Lessons learned through driving science applications in the PRAGMA grid
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
Automatic resource specification generation for resource selection
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
The design methodology of Phoenix cluster system software stack
CHINA HPC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Asian technology information program's (ATIP's) 3rd workshop on High performance computing in China: solution approaches to impediments for high performance computing
Model-based resource selection for efficient virtual cluster deployment
VTDC '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Virtualization technology in distributed computing
A multi-site virtual cluster system for wide area networks
LASCO'08 First USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Computing
Middleware in Modern High Performance Computing System Architectures
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part II
Toward Virtual Machine Packing Optimization Based on Genetic Algorithm
IWANN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks: Part II: Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living
Easy and reliable cluster management: the self-management experience of fire phoenix
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
HPC environment management: new challenges in the petaflop era
VECPAR'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on High performance computing for computational science
Trestles: a high-productivity HPC system targeted to modest-scale and gateway users
Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery
Best practices for the deployment and management of production HPC clusters
State of the Practice Reports
Wallaby: a scalable semantic configuration service for grids and clouds
State of the Practice Reports
Xen-OSCAR for cluster virtualization
ISPA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
Applications development for the computational grid
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
Euro-Par'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Parallel Processing
Quality assurance for clusters: acceptance-, stress-, and burn-in tests for general purpose clusters
HPCC'07 Proceedings of the Third international conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
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High-performance computing clusters (commodity hardware with low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnects) based on Linux, are rapidly becoming the dominant computing platform for a wide range of scientific disciplines.Yet, straightforward software installation, maintenance, and health monitoring for large-scale clusters has been a consistent and nagging problem for non-cluster experts.The NPACI Rocks toolkit takes a fresh perspective on management and installation of clusters to dramatically simplify software version tracking, and cluster integration.The toolkit incorporates the latest Red Hat distribution (including security patches) with additional cluster-specific software.Using the identical software tools used to create the base distribution, users can customize and localize Rocks for their site.Strong adherence to widely-used (\emph{de facto}) tools allows Rocks to move with the rapid pace of Linux development.Version 2.1 of the toolkit is available for download and installation.To date, 10 clusters spread among 5 institutions have been built using this toolkit.