For the past 3 years I've been involved in supporting the UCSD Rocks team in their port to Solaris x86_64. The Rocks development team at UCSD is comprised of a group of talented software engineers who are always looking for ways to make it easier to deploy, manage, and upgrade clusters.
Last year at SC08 I joined the Rocks team as they demonstrated their latest "Rocks and Solaris" cluster distribution in the Sun Booth. In their demo you had the chance to see that Rocks now brings the same ease of installation for Solaris cluster deployment that Rocks has had for Linux for several years.
You can download a pre-release (alpha) version of this "Rocks on Solaris" at:
https://wiki.rocksclusters.org/wiki/index.php/Rocks_on_Solaris
I'm sure the Rocks team would appreciate any feedback you can give them on this alpha version.
What you'll see in this version is:
1. A fully automated provisioning of Solaris compute nodes, and support for Thumper/Thor appliances from a Linux frontend.
2. Rolls support
3. MPI support using Sun HPC Cluster Tools
4. Sun Grid Engine support
