完整的光盤機群解決方案，Rocks Cluster Distribution 6.1 發布

Rocks是一份完整的光盤機群解決方案，它面向x86及IA64的Red Hat Linux COTS機群。組建一套Rocks cluster并不需要任何機群方面的經歷，實際上，機群架構師將能找到一條靈活的并且標題化的方式來重新設計整個軟件棧，而這對大多數用戶而言則適當地 隱藏了。盡管Rocks包括了在任何機群軟件結構中都應指望的工具（PBS、Maui、GM支持、Ganglia等），它的安裝簡易性則是獨一無二的。

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).