Decisions That You Must Make

You must make several decisions before you can plan the installation:

• Decide whether your system of networked computer hosts that run N1 Grid Engine 6.1 software is to be a single cluster or a collection of sub-clusters, called cells. Cells enable you to install separate instances of the grid engine software but share the binary files across those instances.

• Select the machines that are to be grid engine system hosts. Determine the host type of each machine: master host, shadow master host, administration host, submit host, execution host, or a combination.

• Ensure that all users of the grid engine system have the same user names on all submit and execution hosts.

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  Note –

  Hosts running Windows as operating system cannot have the host type master host or shadow master host.

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• Decide how to order grid engine software directories. For example, you could organize directories as a complete tree on each workstation, or you could cross-mount directories, or you could set up a partial directory tree on some workstations. You must also decide where to locate each grid engine software installation directory, sge-root.

• Decide on the site's queue structure.

• Determine whether to define network services as an NIS file or as local to each workstation in /etc/services.

• Use the information in this chapter to gather the information necessary to complete the installation worksheet.