A BioBrew Roll for Rocks 4.1 is currently available.
Create a Rocks cluster (www.rocksclusters.org) for bioinformatics!
BioBrew is a collection of open-source applications for life scientists and an in-house project at Bioinformatics.Org. The BioBrew Roll for Rocks can be used to create Rocks/BioBrew Linux, a distribution customized for both cluster and bioinformatics computing: it automates cluster installation, includes all the HPC software a cluster enthusiast needs, and contains popular bioinformatics applications.
Used in many cluster systems today! To the right, a Rocks/BioBrew cluster running at the Supercomputing Conference, November 2003. Built by Glen Otero, the cluster shown was part of a larger system containing 192 nodes. Each node contained dual Xeons and used Infiniband. It clocked in at over 1 TFLOPS (one Trillion Floating-Point Operations Per Second) of performance, which would have made it one of the 500 fastest computers in the world (though not listed on top500.org). The ticket price for the cluster was USD 1 million. This part of the cluster was touring the world and was seen at expos in Arizona, California, China and Spain.
BioBrew is "FREE AS IN BEER"! Use a mirror to download ISOs and documentation:
Rocks distributions (and thus BioBrew RPMs) are compatible with the following Linux distributions:
We encourage users familiar with the software packages used in BioBrew to contact us with their experiences, problems, successes, and suggestions so that we can improve the distribution. We have an email list for users:
biobrew-users@bioinformatics.org
You can subscribe to the list here:
http://bioinformatics.org/lists/biobrew-users
A very active and helpful Rocks email discussion list exists at:
npaci-rocks-discussion@sdsc.edu
You can subscribe to the list here:
https://lists.sdsc.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/npaci-rocks-discussion
Please only post general Rocks cluster installation, configuration, customization, and management questions to that list, and not any BioBrew bioinformatics software questions. They won't be able to help you with any bioinformatics queries.
LICENSE:
Individual software packages are distributed under open source licenses.