Quoting Paul Guermonprez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hello, > > > the hardware : 10 xeon servers, GEth plus voltaire IB. > > soft : rhel 5.1 x86_64 and oscar rhel-5-x86_64-5.1b1, > using PBS and not SGE > > result : > > 1. missing detail in the doc : > the hostname must not be localhost OK > but if you have 2 interfaces you have to use as hostname the cluster > interface name. it is causing PBS configuration errors. > It is also important to have the short domain name / FQDN in the right order > so that the reverse and hostname match (i guess).
This is weird. Do you still have the error messages? The hostname should work if the /etc/hosts file exists. > > 2. had to create a rpm for network kernel drivers, and use UYOK > even if the driver was present unused on the server machine. > I would opt for a "choose drivers" step in the setup process to > solve storage and network. > I 've seen details on how to do that with sis, but not with oscar I agree that the integration of the SIS UYOK into OSCAR is not yet perfect. > > 3. using voltaire infiniband, added openib redhat rpms in the image, > will have to make it work later. will publish a howto. > ofed will be next step. > > 4. selinux was disabled but the script > /opt/oscar/scripts/system-sanity.d/selinux-check.pl > had a problem, i had to remove /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled to make it work. What was the problem? I have to admit i do not understand why you had to delete the /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled script. Can you give us more details? > > 5. cpush problem copying /etc/hosts, > causing buggy too long filenames impossible to copy in /tmp like > /tmp/192.168.2.109605192.168.2.108581192.168.2.107539192.168.2.106435192.168.2.105479192.168.2.104420192.168.2.103374192.168.2.102245192.168.2.101201192.168.2.1032688hosts > using "cpush -b" (without rsync) works fine A new version of C3 should be released at some point. I do not know if this new version will fix this kind of stuff but various bugs are fixed. > > will update my howto in detail ASAP ... this time with infiniband setup Cool! Thanks a lot for your valuable feedback. A howto about IB will be more than welcome. If you also have suggestions about what OSCAR should provide, let us know. Regards, > > > nice software ! > thanks, paul. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
