Procedure for Installing Undergrad Cluster - ugster.student.cs front-end and nodes
the minimum requirement to bring up a frontend is to have the following rolls:
- Kernel/Boot Roll CD
- Base Roll CD
- HPC Roll CD
- Service Pack Roll CD
- Web Server Roll CD
- OS Roll CD - Disk 1
- OS Roll CD - Disk 2
The above rolls (iso images can be obtained from
http://www.rocksclusters.org)
Insert the Kernel/Boot Roll CD into your frontend machine and reset the frontend machine
Follow the instructions in
FrontEndInstall and
FrontEndConfigure and
WaterlooSpecifics
Warning - you cannot run pbs and sungrid schedulers at the same time - so choose one - in this case we use sungrid
Home dirs are currently added manually.
To check on the cluster
ClusterStatus
-- Main.echrzano - 07 Nov 2006