[Rocks-Discuss] Setup of New Cluster

[atomant]

Hi Guys,

We're reinstalling our clusters in our institute and I was assigned to create a
working set-up of Environment Modules including the installation of various
compilers and applications. I tried searching the Internet for guides in
setting up environment modules but most materials I found are user's guides, and
not installation guides. Can someone point me to some administrator's guide for
installing environment modules? I am quite new to Rocks OS and cluster computing
in general. :-)

Our clusters' main users are students and researchers. Applications that will
be installed are for Physics, Meteorology, Seismology, and Bio-informatics.
Here are some lists of compilers and applications that needs to be set-up:

* Torque

* Fortran compilers (Intel and gfortran)

* GCC compilers (different versions of gcc)

* MPI compilers (MPICH2 and OpenMPI)

* MM5 and WRF for meteorology

* SPECFEM3D_GLOBE for seismology
* Enthough Python Distribution

Thanks and regards,

Nena

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[atomant]

By the way, our cluster is running Rocks 5.4 and I see that there are no Intel
Rolls yet for 5.4? If so, can we use the Rolls for 5.3 instead?

Thanks again,
Nena

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From: atomant <atomant1...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Rocks-Discuss] Setup of New Cluster

Hi Guys,

in general. :-)

* Torque

Thanks and regards,

Nena

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["Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph. D."]

may be check this reply by joe
it is one way to add software that do not yet has correct version of roll
this link provide example of install module
http://www.clustermonkey.net/content/view/161/33/
regards

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[Carina Espanola]

By the way, our cluster is running Rocks 5.4 and I see that there are no Intel
Rolls yet for 5.4? If so, can we use the Rolls for 5.3 instead?

Thanks again,
Nena

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From: atomant <atomant1...@yahoo.com>
To: npaci-rocks...@sdsc.edu
Sent: Monday, February 7, 2011 11:35:37 AM

Subject: Setup of New Cluster

Hi Guys,

We're reinstalling our clusters in our institute and I was assigned to create a
working set-up of Environment Modules including the installation of various
compilers and applications. I tried searching the Internet for guides in
setting up environment modules but most materials I found are user's guides, and
not installation guides. Can someone point me to some administrator's guide for
installing environment modules? I am quite new to Rocks OS and cluster computing
in general. :-)

Our clusters' main users are students and researchers. Applications that will
be installed are for Physics, Meteorology, Seismology, and Bio-informatics.
Here are some lists of compilers and applications that needs to be set-up:

* Torque

* Fortran compilers (Intel and gfortran)

* GCC compilers (different versions of gcc)

* MPI compilers (MPICH2 and OpenMPI)

* MM5 and WRF for meteorology

* SPECFEM3D_GLOBE for seismology
* Enthough Python Distribution

Thanks and regards,

Nena

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[Dominic Daninger]

Based on the testing I've done with the Module roll for Rocks 5.3 it appears to work on Rocks 5.4. I haven't tested the Intel compiler roll. Below is the installation and testing method I used.

# rocks add roll modules-5.3-1.x86_64.disk1.iso
# rocks enable roll modules
# rocks run roll modules | sh
# reboot ;reboot the headnode not sure if needed and check /opt/modules to see if it is there, the try a few commands like follows:
# module help dot ;dot is one of the default module files supplied during the installation
# module display dot
# module list
# module load dot
#echo $PATH
# module rm dot
#echo $PATH
# module list

# cd /export/rocks/install
# rocks create distro
# tentakel /boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart