[Oscar-users] experience installing visualization package Chromium on Oscar cluster?

[Michelle Chu]

I am installing Chromium viz cluster to drive a 2x2 tiled display wall on my Oscar cluster. Four client nodes are connected to and used to drive four 24inch LCD dispalys. I had problem installing Chromium(error from glext.h) on my client node, but fine on my headnode.

I also couldn't start the redhat in graphic mode at client node by setting id from 3 to 5 in /etc/inittab: id:5:initdefault . My client node would still go to text mode after reboot even after I installed the nvidia driver.

I also noticed that many OpenGL packages such as glut under /usr/include and /usr/lib ( it should be default files with Redhat distribution) are missing at my client nodes. Those OpenGL packages are all on my headnode.

I was just wondering if Oscar installation skips many packages for client installation as opposed to headnode installation.

If anybody has experience using Chromium on a Oscar cluster especially on x86_64 machines, I would like to get some help from you. I knew some people who run Chromium under ROCKS. However, I would prefer Oscar as my underlying system for Chromium.

Thanks,
Michelle