Current BCE Virtual Machine (VM)

• Fall 2015 (BCE-2015-fall.ova) (3.7GB)

  • (MD5 integrity checksum: db24805d6c40e93693f010494d3cd811)

• Scripts to add functionality to BCE (instructions for how to run these scripts)

  • Adding functionality for AWS (modify-for-aws.sh)
  • Add tools for parallel computing (add-parallel-tools.sh).
  • Add tools for parallel computing for BCE-2015-spring (add-parallel-tools-2015-spring.sh).
  • Add tools for parallel computing to Starcluster worker nodes (add-parallel-starcluster.sh) NOTE: use with BCE-spring-2015 EC2 image.

Release schedule

We plan to release a new version of BCE at the start of each semester (January for spring semester, May for summer, and August for fall). We will also prepare preview versions a couple of weeks prior to these official releases that will allow us to test and get feedback.

As need arises, we will release patches to fix issues in the official release. These patches will simply be code files that a user can run within the VM to update the VM.

Older releases

• Summer 2015 (BCE-2015-summer.ova) (3.5GB)

  • (MD5 integrity checksum: 9e9500c00b7f2a1f0ac10623fbc6fbed)
  • Patch file: none (patching instructions)

• Spring 2015 (BCE-2015-spring.ova) (3.4GB)

  • (MD5 integrity checksum: 3d26353b7969ebcee6755529ae0751fc)
  • Patch file: none (patching instructions)

Upcoming preview versions

• To appear in spring 2016: Summer 2016

Older preview versions

• Spring 2015 Preview #2 (BCE-2015-spring-preview-2.ova)
  • (3.2GB; MD5: b6062814ebbef4d0e65cf2b42eac42d7)