Hi, On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:11 -0600, Dirk Reiners wrote: > Hi Gerrit, > > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 11:45 +0800, Gerrit Voss wrote: > > > > hmm ok for the installation I have it works, but this is a slightly > > older (Centos4.1 Rocks based system). Which basically uses > > Hm, crap! :( > > Sideline: you're running Rocks on your cluster? Happy with it?
so far yes, it required lot less tweaking than OSCAR to get it running, and most of the problems weren't actually Rocks problems but general Centos 4.1 x86_64 problems on hp xw9300 machines (segfaults during filesystem creation). But I'm just starting to modify it to suit our needs (e.g. building an OpenSG-Viz roll ;-)) What I like is that you can install everything over the network (including the frontend) so I can have my dev server, build the rolls and than push them out to the full cluster without creating some physical media in the middle. Also you get a lot of prepackaged stuff I'm not really interested in building and configuring myself from scratch (chromium, dmx, sage, gromacs, mpiblast). The 'reinstall from scratch often' approach is kind of strange in the beginning but it seems to work well in combination with building your own roll (which is quite easy to do) to make the configuration changes persistent. It also helps to make sure it not just worked because you have some old stuff and tweaks lying around. But it is clearly tailored to production systems, how it will play out in a dev environment I'm not quite sure. But again the system connected to our main demos display is kind of 'production' use ;-) And it just augments the standard RedHat kickstarting process so it has a known base to it ;-) which makes debugging a little bit easier. > > bohr: /home/gerrit% uname -a > > Linux bohr.camtech.ntu.edu.sg 2.6.9-22.EL #1 Sat Oct 8 21:08:40 BST 2005 > > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > bohr: /home/gerrit% g++ -v > > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.4/specs > > Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man > > --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix > > --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit > > --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk > > --host=x86_64-redhat-linux > > Thread model: posix > > gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2) > > > > python2.3 and boost 1.32 > > > > I'll see if I can update it. Which distro are you using FC4 ?. > > It's RHEL4 with a newer kernel due to problems with my box. > > No, that's ok. I only needed it for a quick test, and I could do that > without elf-tls. Let's wait a little and see if it gets fixes as a side > effect somewhere else. hmm that's interesting (and confusing) as CentOS should be a RH4 clone but all the tools are different versions ;-). My gcc is newer but my python and boost packages are older. regards, gerrit ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users
