NPACI: rocks: tools and techniques for easily deploying manageable Linux clusters

Parallel processing of remotely sensed data: Application to the ATSR-2 instrument

“…The NPACI Rocks distribution provides cost effective, efficient system administration functions for PIPE [6]. Rocks also provides a scalable architecture which ensures that as the cluster grows (e.g., more compute nodes are added) the system administration burden remains manageable.…”

UCSF tomography: An integrated software suite for real-time electron microscopic tomographic data collection, alignment, and reconstruction

“…To simplify cluster setup and management we use Rocks (Papadopoulos et al, 2001). One thread (namely, the head node) of execution communicates with the data collection system.…”

HPC Cluster Readiness of Xen and User Mode Linux

“…The 1GB image used for these tests is larger than absolutely required, but is representative of a typical cluster node image in relation to Rocks [10] and OSCAR [6].…”