Lesson 12

Date: 4/23/2009
Computational clusters
Linux for Engineering and IT applications


SGE installation

  • Download file for SGE, ge62u2_1_lx24-amd64.tar.gz and ompi_par.txt
  • Untar the archive: 
    tar -zxvf ge62u2_1_lx24-amd64.tar.gz
cd ge6.2u2_1

  • Create directory /usr/local/SGE and uncompress the two archives into it: 
    mkdir /usr/local/SGE
cp ge-6.2u2_1-bin-lx24-amd64.tar.gz /usr/local/SGE
cp ge-6.2u2_1-common.tar.gz /usr/local/SGE
cd /usr/local/SGE
tar -zxvf ge-6.2u2_1-bin-lx24-amd64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ge-6.2u2_1-common.tar.gz
  • Run the installation scripts for the master daemion: 
    cd /usr/local/SGE
./install_qmaster
    Choose 'classic spooling' setting during the installation. The other parameters can be the default ones.

  • Add both the desktop and the node to the list of administrative hosts. Add the parrallel environment for MPI. 
    qconf -ah  desktop01
qconf -ah node01
qconf -Ap ompi_par.txt


    ./install_execd

  • include the following line in file /etc/profile 
      . /usr/local/SGE/default/common/settings.sh

  • Archive the installation, copy it onto node01 daemon 
    cd /usr/local
tar -zcvf SGE.tar SGE
scp SGE.tar root@node01:/usr/local

  • On the node, run installation of the execution daemon 
    cd /usr/local
tar -zxvf SGE.tar
cd SGE
./install_execd

  • Install libmotif3 libraries: 
    apt-get install libmotif3
source /etc/profile

  • Complete the SGE configuration by running qmon 
    qmon


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