Technology

The various components of the GEON system are shown in the following diagram. You may click on each module to obtain more information about it.

Geon System Software

  • Rocks Base Software Stack with Wide-Area (WAN) Boot Image. The Geon Systems group worked with the Rocks development team to add support for Wide-Area Cluster Management with Rocks, i.e. “wide-area kickstarts”. This capability has been rolled into the base rocks distribution
  • Rocks Documentation
  • GeonGrid Software Stack (GEONGrid Roll Image). Contains:
    • Globus 4.0.2
    • Axis 1.4
    • Tomcat 5.0.28
    • Postgres 8.0.3
    • PostGIS 1.0.2 (with Proj and Geos)
    • Ant-1.6.2
    • NWS 2.10.1
    • INCA 0.10.1
    • GridSphere 2.0.2
    • JDK 1.4.2 (Rocks Roll)
    • Tripwire (Rocks Roll)
    • Samba 3.11