Before Installation

Before installing Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 software, you need to ensure that the hardware and software that make up your cluster meet certain requirements. You must have already installed LSF 3.2.3. Further requirements are outlined in the Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 Installation Guide. Review them before proceeding with the instructions in this appendix.

If you are installing the software on a cluster of more than 16 nodes, you will probably want to use the CCM tools to make installation easier. You can use these tools to install on up to 16 nodes at a time. If you need to install software on a cluster of more than 16 nodes, you must install it first on a group of up to 16 nodes, then add more nodes by repeating the installation process on additional groups of up to 16 until you have installed the software on all the nodes in the cluster. For each group of nodes, you will need to create a separate configuration file, each with a unique file name, such as hpc_config1, hpc_config2, and so on.