Sun HPC ClusterTools
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This chapter provides information you should understand before proceeding with the rest of the manual. It consists of the following sections:
The standard installation procedures described in this manual require superuser (root) privileges.
You can bypass the superuser requirement by following the lighter weight procedure described in the Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2.1c Quick Installation Guide. The alternative procedure involves simply unpacking a tarball that contains the HPC ClusterTools software and locating the extracted files by hand.
Note - You should use the standard installation tools if you want the system’s package management system to be able to identify or otherwise manage the software. |
The Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2.1c Quick Installation Guide is a text file that is part of the documentation tarball located on the software download site:
TABLE 1-1 provides a summary of the conditions that must be satisfied to allow a successful installation of the Sun HPC ClusterTools software.
There are two standard software installation procedures described in this manual:
Chapter 2 explains how to install and remove HPC ClusterTools software on nodes running the Solaris OS. These operations employ the HPC ClusterTools utilities ctinstall and ctremove.
Chapter 3 explains how to install and configure RPM packages on nodes running a supported Linux OS.
The default path used for installing for the Sun HPC ClusterTools software depends on the node’s OS environment and, for nodes running the Linux OS, which compiler version was used. The following list identifies the current default paths:
You can have different versions of HPC ClusterTools software installed on the same node, so long as they are installed in different locations.
Note - If you want to use Sun HPC ClusterTools software that is in a non-standard location, use the OPAL_PREFIX environment variable to specify its non-default path. |
The Cluster Console tools, cconsole, ctelnet, and crlogin, are available in the package SUNWcconf, which is bundled with the Solaris Cluster software. Solaris Cluster software can be downloaded from the following URL:
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=4581ab9e
Although you do not need Cluster Console for centralized installation of Sun HPC ClusterTools software, it can be a convenient tool for various administrative operations, such as booting cluster nodes in a Custom JumpStart installation.
Centralized command initiation provides a command execution summary for each initiated activity. This summary reports the results of the operation, identifying the nodes on which the operation was successful and the nodes on which it failed. Such reports are not available when using the Cluster Console tools.
Open Run-Time Environment (ORTE) provides close integration with several distributed resource management (DRM) systems, such as Sun Grid Engine. For information on how close integration works and how to set up the integration for each of the supported resource managers, refer to the Sun HPC ClusterTools Software Administrator’s Guide.
The Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.2.1c Software User’s Guide contains information about how to set up close integration with Sun Grid Engine.
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