C H A P T E R 6 |
Installing the Linux Packages |
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8 software supports Red Hat Linux (RHEL) versions 4 and 5 and SuSe Linux (SLES) versions 9 and 10. The Linux packages are delivered in RPM format.
For each version of Linux, there are two types of ClusterTools 8 RPMs: one built with Sun Studio 12 compilers, and the other built with the GNU compiler gcc. The file names of the various packages are as follows, where x is the build number of the most recent build of the software:
To Unpack the Linux Packages |
In this example, the commands install the SuSe Linux version 9 package built with the Sun Studio 12 compiler. Substitute the file name of the Linux version you want to install for ClusterTools-8.0-x.x86_64-sles9-built-with-sun.rpm.
1. Create a scratch directory (called $SCRATCH_DIR in this example) on the system on which you are installing the ClusterTools 8 software.
2. Type the following commands to unpack the Linux packages, substituting the name of your scratch directory and the name of the Linux package you want to install.
# cd SunHPCClusterTools_8.0/ # cp sun-hpc-ct-8.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz $SCRATCH_DIR # cd $SCRATCH_DIR # gunzip sun-hpc-ct-8.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz # tar xvf sun-hpc-ct-8.0-Linux-x86_64.tar |
To Install the Linux Packages |
You need to install the RPM packages individually on each Linux node in your cluster. To facilitate the process, you might want to use a parallel SSH tool such as cconsole. For more information on cconsole, see Cluster Console Tools.
Other parallel SSH tools include the following:
The following example shows the commands you would type to install the ClusterTools 8 package (built with the Sun Studio compiler) for SuSe Linux version 9.
Note - You only need to use the rpm --erase command if you already have a previous version of Sun HPC ClusterTools software installed on the system. |
# cd sun-hpc-ct-8.0-Linux-x86_64/Product/Install_Utilities/bin # rpm --erase ClusterTools # rpm --install ClusterTools-8.0-23.x86_64-sles9-built-with-sun.rpm |
To Verify the Installation |
The Linux packages for the Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 software are located in /opt/clustertools/8.0 (by default). To verify that the software is installed properly, you can try launching a simple non-MPI parallel job using mpirun. The following example shows a sample job:
where hostname is the name of the system on which you installed the Linux package.
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