6 Outline of Cluster Installation Procedure
The following outline is a general description of how an OSCAR cluster
is installed. Users do not manually perform many of the steps in this
outline - they are automatically executed as part of the OSCAR
installation process.
- Server Installation and Configuration
- install Linux on the server node
- get an OSCAR distribution package
- configure the ethernet adapter for cluster
- copy Linux distribution RPMs from CDs to /tftpboot/rpm
- get updated distribution-specific RPMs
- copy updated RPMs to /tftpboot/rpm
- Initial OSCAR Server Configuration
- create OSCAR directories
- install OSCAR-specific software
- C3
- LAM/MPI
- MPICH
- OPIUM
- OpenPBS
- Maui
- pfilter
- PVM
- SIS
- Switcher
- Various services:
- Network File System (NFS)
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- rsync
- OpenSSH
- update some system files
- update system startup scripts
- start/restart affected services
- Cluster Definition
- build and customize image
- install Linux distribution RPMs
- install OSCAR RPMs
- customize and copy system and user files
- setup NFS mount for /home
- generate SSH keys
- define disk partitioning and filesystems
- define clients
- update hosts files on server and in images
- collect client MAC addresses
- setup remote booting (network or diskette)
- Client Installations
- boot clients to start install
- reboot each client when finished installing
- Complete cluster setup
- Test cluster
- test PBS
- test OpenSSH
- test MPICH
- test LAM/MPI
- test PVM
- test HDF5
- Cluster setup complete!
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