完整的光盘机群解决方案，Rocks Cluster Distribution 6.1 发布

Rocks是一份完整的光盘机群解决方案，它面向x86及IA64的Red Hat Linux COTS机群。组建一套Rocks cluster并不需要任何机群方面的经历，实际上，机群架构师将能找到一条灵活的并且标题化的方式来重新设计整个软件栈，而这对大多数用户而言则适当地 隐藏了。尽管Rocks包括了在任何机群软件结构中都应指望的工具（PBS、Maui、GM支持、Ganglia等），它的安装简易性则是独一无二的。

Philip Papadopoulos has announced the release of Rocks Cluster Distribution 6.1, a CentOS-based open-source toolkit for real and virtual clusters: " The latest update of Rocks, code name 'Emerald Boa', is now released. Emerald Boa is available for CentOS 6.3 (Rocks 6.1). The Rocks-supplied OS rolls have all updates applied as of November 27, 2012. New features: host-based SSH authentication is now the default, this eliminates the requirement the users have password-less SSH keys and/or mounted home area on remote nodes; two-factor SSH authentication using Google Authenticator Apps for Android and iPhone is supported for all users; New ZFS Linux roll to support the ZFS file system via the ZFS on Linux; new kernel roll to more easily support vanilla Linux kernels." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download ( MD5) the "jumbo" DVDs containing the OS and all available "rolls": area51...6.1.i386.disk1.iso (2,516MB), area51...6.1.x86_64.disk1.iso (2,580MB).