Rocks 3.3.0 Released - Adds support for EM64T (Nocona), Visualization Clusters, and Infiniband
Thursday, November 04 2004 @ 07:45 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and their collaborators have released version 3.3.0 of the Rocks Clustering Distribution for immediate download (www.rocksclusters.org). Rocks supports all commodity processors: x86, Opteron, Itanium, and now EM64T Xeon.
Major new features of this release include: support for Intel's new 64-bit Xeon EM64T platform, inclusion of LAM/MPI as an alternative to MPICH, and two new Rolls for Visualization and Infiniband.
"The clustering community is quickly moving towards 64-bit CPUs with the introduction of AMD's Opteron just over a year ago and most recently with Intel's EM64T Xeons in the last few months. With strong support from key vendors, Rocks is able to rapidly add support for the most relevant commodity HPC platforms," said Philip Papadopoulos, Program Director for Grids and Clusters at SDSC. Early access to EM64T hardware, in the form of equipment donations, was provided by both Dell and Intel.
