A clean OS install (no updates) is always preferable, though the initial configuration is important (and slightly different) for different systems. Please read the release notes section in the installation guide for more detailed instructions on what is required for RHEL to be happy with OSCAR.
On 7/22/05, DD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > Over the last few years, I was very happy with how > OSCAR perform on my cluster that grew from 8 nodes all > the way to five clusters of 128 nodes each. The CPU I > used vary from the slower 2.0GHz Xeons up to the > fastest 3.06GHz. Currently we cannot get anymore of > this type of Xeon CPUs and I have to bring in the > 800Mhz EM64T Xeons. > > My intention was to put Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 in > the head and subsequently, to the computing nodes. I > just finished putting together a rack of 17 identical > boxes. All with 3.6GHz Xeon EM64T CPU and 8GB of RAM > in each node. > > Before I dive in and find it out the hard way of > potential problem, I would like to seek the advice of > anyone with the experience installing and setup RH > EL3. Specifically, do I install/setup RH EL3 > completely on the head node, with all the patches and > updates from Redhat before installing OSCAR? Or is it > OK if I just do a plain installation of RH EL3 and > then OSCAR on top of that? Is there any potential > issue that I need to be aware of before setting up RH > EL3? > > Thank you in advance for your responses, > Dzung Do > Development Engineer > Seagate Technology > (952) 402-8148 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
